My decision has been made. At the end of October I’m going to attend the 2009 Berlin Porn Film Festival and see the European premiere of my film. It’s a shame I’ll miss the Melbourne festival but in the end the Berlin fest is the one more suited to my own work.
My mind was made up when I saw that the BPFF will be focusing extensively on the work of women. Over half of the submitted films were created by female filmmakers, which is unprecedented, I suspect. Even mainstream film festivals might be pushing to equal those numbers.
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Better yet, the list of attendees is stellar and includes Candida Royalle, Petra Joy, Shine Louise Houston, Maria Beatty, Emilie Jouvet, Anna Brownfield (the Australian who made “The Band”), Anna Peak and BDSM mistress Julie Simone. I can’t wait to meet these amazing women and discuss the growing genre of porn for women and female-gaze porn.
On top of that there is the presentation of the Joy Award, created by Petra Joy to encourage female perspectives in porn. I’m looking forward to seeing the other the submissions to this competition (because yes, I’m submitting my own movies to it). Petra is presenting a workshop on erotic filmmaking at the festival. I’ll be attending that as well as Wendy Delorme’s fisting workshop.
AND there’s also a brand new erotic fiction festival running in conjunction – Erophil. This will look at erotic literature through films, lectures and professional discussions, including a trade fair. Very cool.
The opening night film at Erophil is Pasolini’s Salo: 120 Nights Of Sodom, a film that has a long history of censorship here in Australia. It’s currently banned so I relish the opportunity to thumb my nose at the government and see it, thus destroying my morals and sense of good and evil, as it will supposedly do. To be honest I’ll probably find it very unappealing but I’ll go and see it out of a sense of rebellion more than anything.
So… it’s gonna be a big week at the end of October and I don’t have much time to organise the trip. But I’m very excited about it and will be taking my camera to document the whole thing.