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In October 2007, Morris's Treasure Island Media (TIM) won the prize for Best US Studio at the DAVID Awards in Berlin. He was a primary producer of Todd Ahlberg's film, Meth, a feature-length documentary on drug abuse among gay men. He has also funded projects by San Francisco's Artists' Television Access. He is known to be a patron of independent filmmakers and has supported work by Vanessa Renwick, Bill Daniel, Todd Verow, Daniel Rabinowitz, Lee Krist, Ryan Sullivan and others. Alongside his own videos, Morris has expanded the studio to release videos directed by Damon Dogg, Max Sohl, Liam Cole, and the Mecos group in Mexico City, and independently produced videos by Swiss members of the Dark Sun Collective. Morris started Treasure Island Media, naming the business after his favorite childhood book ( Treasure Island). He has studied with Robert Ashley, Philip Corner, Grosvenor Cooper, Terry Riley, and Lou Harrison. He holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. Charles Steven Key, better known as Paul Morris, is the owner of Treasure Island Media, a San Francisco, California-based gay pornography studio that specializes in bareback pornography.īefore being a pornographer, Morris studied composition.