Axel Braun (born Alessandro Re) is an

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adult film producer and director known for his productions of pornographic parodies. The son of

Lasse Braun Lasse Braun (born Alberto Ferro; 11 January 1936 – 16 February 2015) was an Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher. He initially produced so-called loops, ten-minute hardcore movies that he sold to ...

, he is an

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and

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inductee.

Early life

Axel was born and raised in

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. His mother had a brief affair with adult film director

. Axel didn't meet Lasse until he was 14. He attended film school at

Columbia College Hollywood Columbia College Hollywood (CCH) is a private college in Los Angeles, California. It is one of only 20 film institutions in the United States that have been awarded full membership by the International Association of Film and Television Schools ...

Career

Braun has directed over 500 movies since 1990. Braun's movie '' Batman XXX: A Porn Parody'' was the best-selling and best-renting title of 2010. Due to the success of ''Batman XXX'',

Vivid Entertainment Vivid Entertainment Group is an American pornographic film production company,

created a new line to capitalize on the

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and sci-fi genres called Vivid Superhero and Braun was named leading director for the initiative. In 2013, Braun left Vivid and signed an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures to launch Wicked Fairy Tales and Wicked Comix, two imprints dedicated exclusively to fairy tale and comic book parodies. In December 2020, following the acquisition of Wicked Pictures by Gamma Entertainment, Braun was appointed Head of Production for the company.

Advocacy

Braun filed a federal lawsuit against 7,098 individuals who he alleged illegally shared digital copies of his movie ''Batman XXX: A Porn Parody'' on October 29, 2010. In May 2014, Braun announced two new policies for his productions. First, he would no longer forgo the use of condoms in his videos. Second, he will require full-panel STD/HIV tests no older than seven days. He added that he would personally cover the cost for the test if a performer's current test is older.

Recognition

Braun was inducted into the

in 2014. He has won the AVN Best Parody award for nine consecutive years in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Braun is the only adult director to have won the AVN Director of the Year award more than once, as he has won four consecutive times in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. In January 2015, ''24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody'' became the first parody ever to win the AVN Movie of the Year award. Braun won the top award again in 2016 with ''Peter Pan XXX: An Axel Braun Parody'', and in 2017 with ''Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody'' scoring an unprecedented AVN Movie of the Year three-peat. In 2019, Braun won the AVN Movie of the Year for a fourth time with ''The Possession of Mrs. Hyde'', his first non-parody feature in 15 years, written with his father

and his son Rikki, and shot entirely in Black and White CinemaScope.

Other ventures

Braun is the owner of Level 5 Post, a post-production company that supplies editing, authoring, graphics and special effects to many adult and mainstream companies.

Selected awards

References

External links

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Level 5 Post – Braun's post production company
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