23
June
2008
Petra Joy reports on her blog that her latest film Feeling It is up for two major awards at this year’s International Erotic Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (FICEB). The first nomination is for Best Film and the second is for Best Director. She’s up against heavyweights from the adult industry including films from Vivid [...]
Posted: Filmmaking, Porn Movies, Porn for Women
5
June
2008
A couple of years ago Anna Brownfield made waves when her film The Money Shot won numerous awards at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. When the ABC show Mondo Thingo decided to do a piece on “chick porn” they interviewed Anna as the local representative of the porn for women movement.*
Now Anna is about to [...]
Posted: Filmmaking, Porn Movies, Porn for Women
21
April
2008
I’ve now watched Erika Lust’s debut film Five Hot Stories For Her and I have to say I’m very impressed. This film won movie of the year at the Feminist Porn Awards and I think it deserved it. Certainly this film now shares a spot on my “all time favourites” list.
Five Hot Stories For [...]
Posted: Feminism, Filmmaking, Porn Movies, Porn for Women
9
April
2008
The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, hosted by the BFI, featured a special selection of female-focused and produced erotica. Under the banner “Female Fantasies”, the festival screened a number of erotic shorts by female filmmakers, including Petra Joy. From festival website:
A new wave of feminist pornographers explore authentic onscreen sexuality with humour, edge, and [...]
Posted: Feminism, Filmmaking, Porn
8
April
2008
Good For Her’s 3rd Annual Feminist Porn Awards have been announced following a ceremony held in Toronto on Saturday night.
The list of winners:
Boundary Breaker of the Year
Buck Angel
Smutty Schoolteacher of the Year (Educational Title)
Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Oral Sex Part 1 Cunnilingus and Part 2 Fellatio | Tristan Taormino; Vivid Ed
Hottest Dyke Film
Crash Pad [...]
Posted: Feminism, Filmmaking, Porn for Women
31
March
2008
Script Frenzy is a very cool thing and it officially starts tomorrow. Budding writers are supposed to register their intent and then knuckle down to produce a 100 page script by April 30.
I’m registered and had every intention of doing it… and then the last week has just disappeared with other work. I’ve got the [...]
Posted: Filmmaking
17
March
2008
On the weekend I watched Petra Joy’s latest film “Feeling It” and I’m ready to announce that it’s the greatest porn for women movie EVER. Yes, yes, I know that’s what I said about her last film, Female Fantasies, but this is a NEW one. And I don’t think I’ve got enough rampant adjectives to [...]
Posted: Feminism, Filmmaking, Porn Movies, Porn for Women
15
March
2008
I got a bit of a surprise when I visited Good For Her and discovered that they’ve moved the date for the feminist porn awards forward by two months. Which is why I haven’t mentioned anything about this year’s awards before this. Unfortunately my friend Chanelle Gallant has left the store so I’m a bit [...]
Posted: Feminism, Filmmaking, Porn for Women
12
March
2008
There’s an interview with Candida Royalle at The Gazette which is a Canadian student publication.
A snippet:
She feels in order for women to see the kind of adult films they want to see, they need to wrest the reigns of production away from the “lowlife, no talent creeps†and create films they approve of, would want [...]
Posted: Filmmaking, Porn for Women
7
March
2008
The recent Cinekink erotic film festival in New York featured a panel discussion called “Women Behind The Lens” featuring Candida Royalle, Audacia Ray and Julie Simone.
There’s a video of the whole discussion here. I haven’t watched it yet because I just don’t have the time today but it’s there if you’re interested.
Audacia has blogged about [...]
Posted: Feminism, Filmmaking, Porn, Sex and Women