{"id":984,"date":"2008-11-07T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T02:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2008-11-07T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T02:18:27","slug":"porn-festivals-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/porn-festivals-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Porn Festivals Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/parisPFF.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Paris porn film festival\" \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just more aware of porn festivals since I went to Berlin, but it seems they&#8217;re popping up everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend sees the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfservetoys.com\/Pornotopia.htm\" target=\"blank\">Pornotopia Feminist Porn Film Festival<\/a> in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Petra&#8217;s <em>Feeling It<\/em> and Erika&#8217;s <em>Five Hot Stories For Her<\/em> are featured, as is Audacia&#8217;s funny new short <em>Dacia&#8217;s Love Machine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend we got to Paris saw the first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parispornfilmfest.com\" target=\"blank\">Paris Porn Film Festival<\/a>&#8230; which I unfortunately missed. The Guardian wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2008\/oct\/12\/france-festivals\" target=\"blank\">somewhat cynical article<\/a> about the festival and the growth of feminism and female influence in porn.<\/p>\n<p>There are similar porn festivals planned for other cities in Europe throughout next year.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2009 my new friend Jennifer Lyon Bell is presenting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratedx.nl\/\" target=\"blank\">Rated X Film Festival in Amsterdam<\/a>, dedicated to alternative, artistic and radical erotica. The call for submissions is still open; I wonder if I can slap something together in time?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sexyfilmfest\" target=\"blank\">Sexy International Film Festival<\/a> is touring around the world after a successful showing in Melbourne. They marketed themselves as being &#8220;not porn&#8221; but it&#8217;s still a step forward for Australia to have something like this.<\/p>\n<p>I want to go to these things! And I want to make movies for them too. Just gotta get a bit more organised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, my video mini-doco of the Berlin festival has been delayed while I wait for permission to use a couple of clips. Be patient, I&#8217;ll have it up on the blog next week, with a full version available at FTG.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just more aware of porn festivals since I went to Berlin, but it seems they&#8217;re popping up everywhere. This weekend sees the second Pornotopia Feminist Porn Film Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Petra&#8217;s Feeling It and Erika&#8217;s Five Hot Stories For Her are featured, as is Audacia&#8217;s funny new short Dacia&#8217;s Love Machine. The weekend we got to Paris saw the first ever Paris Porn Film Festival&#8230; which <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/porn-festivals-everywhere\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[279,330,331,539,594],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filmmaking","category-porn","tag-erotica","tag-film-festivals","tag-films","tag-movies","tag-paris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}