DON'T MENTION THE MANSION mocumentary short directed by Bella LeNestour edited by Lindsay Root produced by Possible Pictures 1991 In 1992, Bella LeNestour was hired as a scenic artist for a comedy whose claim to fame was that Tracy Lords, was to play the main female role, since she had moved out of her porn career. There were 30 people working for NUT HOUSE, set in a mansion in Los Angeles. Bella’s job was to paint the stairs to look like marble. Her assistant, gone for coffee, soon brought back juicy rumors she’d heard amongst the carpenters: something about a homo erotic library secretly hidden in the basement of the mansion. Seeing the rate at which the rumor was spreading and the excitement building amongst the crew, Bella brought her camera and interviewed everyone on the set. This was the beginning of DON’T MENTION THE MANSION a “Rashomon style” comic inquiry, which won the Silver award at the Houston International Festival.