Bellesa is a Canadian internet pornography website founded in 2017 and marketed towards women.
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Bellesa later began working with St James to produce films in which the pornographic actors had agency over storylines, outfits and who they would work with.
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Bellesa Films have garnered several nominations for AVN Awards, winning one.
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Montreal-based company Bellesa was founded in February 2017 by Michelle Shnaidman, who majored in Psychology and minored in Women's Studies at McGill University, graduating in 2014.
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Bellesa felt alienated by mainstream pornography websites, highlighting "grow your penis by 4 inches"-type adverts as a demonstration that the sites are not designed for her.
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Pornographic director Jacky St James, whose content was used on Bellesa, criticized that the website was "faux-feminist" for making statements about ethics but using others' content without credit.
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In October 2017, AVN announced that Bellesa was founding a pornographic studio, Bellesa Productions, in co-operation with Mile High Media.
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In December 2019, Bellesa Films launched an imprint, Bellesa House, with St James as a director.
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Bellesa stated that the initiative was needed because "much of the adult content shot by studios with performers of color, even in 2021, is fetishized and problematic".
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In September 2022, Bellesa Plus released the comeback scene of performer Remy LaCroix.
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