Fred Salaff needs help : Melbourne Indymedia

Facts of Fred Salaff case:

Who is Fred Salaff?

A well-known photographer and adult filmmaker, with 18 years in the adult industry, American Citizen Fred Salaff is best regarded for his luscious photography of black women.
Fred Salaff has been active in filmmaking all his adult life, since he started as a maker of corporate documentaries. He is best known under the Clayton Blacquemoor alias in the adult movie business.

An interesting article about him from SexNet can be found here: http://www.sexnet.com/gazette/clayton.html.

18 years ago, a friend introduced him to the adult business, and he went on to film such best-selling videos as “Caribbean Booty Call (A tantalizing video calendar immortalizing the most beautiful women the West Indies has to offer.)” (30,000 copies purchased by Blockbuster alone!), and the FJS International Black Mystique series. Many of his productions were filmed under the alias "Clayton Blacquemoor", while still residing in Los Angeles, U.S.A.

It was way back then that Fred Salaff overcame the odds and survived a brain tumor operation, which sequel is that he must take testosterone shots and a special medicine called Dostinex (Generic Cabergolin) to prevent a reoccurrence of his brain tumor. Nevertheless, you couldn’t find a happier man who is always cheerful and of a good heart for his good luck in surviving the operation. He also must take shots of Primotestone DEP every 15 days for the testosterone deficiency he suffers from his bout with the tumor. Dostinex can not be bought in Panama, so we have to pay expensive prices to bring it from outside.

Three years ago, Fred Salaff decided to settle down and moved to Panama, Republic of Panama, looking for a sedate tropical lifestyle. He became very active in social groups of expats helping with his film making skills to produce beautiful materials promoting the beauty of the city, its monuments and the old Spanish fortifications of the Colonial Era.

It was also three years ago he met a beautiful young lady while on a trip to Cuba while filming documentaries about Cuban Music, one of his passions. He was smitten by her and married her shortly thereafter. He has been trying, unsuccessfully so far, to get her a visa to come to Panama to be with him.

While now located in Panama, business contacts still asked him to produce more adult films, featuring the beautiful Latin girls of this Caribbean country.

Fred directed several more movies while residing in Panama. And, he decided it was best if he alerted the authorities as to his intentions to make sure he didn’t run afoul of any local laws.

So, a formal petition by Rio Bueno Ltd., on behalf of Fred Salaff was directed to the Ministry of Government and Justice of Panama, asking about the legality of filming adult movies in that country. By law, the government has 30 days to reply to a questionnaire filed by anyone. Even though it took much longer than that, Fred waited patiently for the answer.

Eventually, the government answered. After a check with all institutions and laws that could possibly apply, the response was exact. There was no law against the production of adult films in the Republic of Panama. As long as minors were not involved, you were free and clear.

The one dissenting note was that of the “Junta Nacional de Censura” (National Censorship Board) which function is to approve ratings for films to be shown in local cinemas. It is interesting to note at this point, that several adult movie houses operate with the permission of the Censorship Board in Panama City. Nevertheless, they recommended against it even though they admitted it was out of their jurisdiction. This writer shares the general feeling that a job at the Censorship Board consists of nothing more than free movie passes all year long. The rating system is whatever rating the movie got in the U.S. anyway. What work is there to do? The actual, official document is now posted here: PDF FORMAT (2 pages), JPG FORMAT PAGE 1, JPG FORMAT PAGE 2.

http://www.fredsalaff.com/

Look this is a long story ( with pictures ) that Indy, bless her, can not quite do justice to so read the rest here and please, please, please...help the man. Help save Fred. Thank you for yr time.

http://www.fredsalaff.com/