$10 at the door. Proceeds supporting the 2010 Feminist Porn Awards
One person’s art is another person’s porn, and one person’s porn is another person’s art. ArtCore will look at art influenced porn and porn influenced art with video screenings and performances that laugh in the face of boundaries between the erotic and the artistic.
Featuring clips from both new directors and new work from Feminist Porn Award winning directors, this evening promises you’ll never look at fruit, hot dogs, Barbie dolls or fully clothed men in quite the same way again.
Art House Sluts- follows the rise and sexual downfall of artsy slut Maddie Superstar, with an impressive performance art scene starring Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich along the way. Directed by Madison Young, winner of Feminist Porn Awards for Hottest Kink Film 2008 Bondage Boob Tube and 2009 for Perversions of Lesbian Lust, as well as Indie Porn Pioneer 2009.
Fruitcake - How do you spell revolution? We spell it A-N-U-S. From Sweden, directed by Sara Kaaman and Ester Martin Bergsmark. Part of Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn.
Glamazons - Zaftig mega-star April Flores shows us what Barbie dolls are really good for. Directed by Carlos Batts, Winner of an Honourable Mention Feminist Porn Award Winner for Voluptuous Biker Babes in 2009.
Headshot - A different take on Andy Warhol’s “Blowjob”. How explicit does something have to be to be called porn? What is too explicit to be called art? Directed by Jennifer Lyon Bell, winner of an Honourable Mention Feminist Porn Award for Matinee in 2009.
+ Performances and installations:
Dylan Ryan investigates the interplay of fantasy life and public space that is present in the creation of porn, through dance and more. Dylan is also the 2009 Feminist Porn Award winner for “Heartthrob of the Year”.
Frances Mahon’s “Donut Spectacular” is an intimate, interactive performance exploring sexiness, awkwardness, greed, and sugar.
Ab Horrence will set your loins aflame with his intimate and interactive bed time story.
+ raffles galore, art surprises, and more!
ArtCore is a fundraiser for the Fifth Annual Feminist Porn Awards, which will be held on Thursday, April 8 and Friday April 9 2010.
Good for Her is thrilled to present the 5th Annual Feminist Porn Awards.The Feminist Porn Awards honor pornographers whose groundbreaking work offers a fresh perspective on the sexual expression of women and everyone who finds themselves under-represented in mainstream pornography.
The official nomination period for consideration for the Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards opens on October 5, 2009 and will close on January 31, 2010.
In order to be considered for a Feminist Porn Award, submissions must meet at least 1 of the following criteria:
1)A woman had a hand in the production, writing, direction etc. of the work.
2)The work depicts genuine female pleasure
3)The work expands the boundaries of sexual representation on film, challenges stereotypes and presents a vision that sets the content apart from most mainstream pornography
Categories for awards may include, but are not limited to: Canadian Content, Diverse Cast/Representation, Emerging Filmmaker, Independent, International, Kink/Fetish, Lesbian/Dyke, Short Film, Straight, Trans, and Web-Based.
Please send 4 screener copies of each work to be considered on DVD to:
FPA Nominations
c/o Good For Her
175 Harbord Street
Toronto ON M5S1H3
Canada
* For website submissions, please email your information and include a user name and password to be used by jury members
Filmmakers should also feel free to include any other information about their work that is worthy of consideration by the jury.
The two-night celebration will be held on April 8th and 9th, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario.
Good For Her is entering their fifth year as producers of the Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards, the largest and longest running celebration of feminist porn in the world. Since 1997, Good For Her has been creating a nurturing environment where everyone can feel comfortable learning about sex and pleasure. Good For Her provides quality sex toys, erotic and educational books as well as DVDs and workshops that empower and celebrate the diversity of everyone’s sexuality.
On November 6th, Good For Her is hosting a fundraiser for the fabulous 2010 Feminist Porn Awards entitled: ArtCore. The focus of this event is the ongoing debate between Art Vs. Porn. What is the difference? Is there a difference? Who gets to decide?
ArtCore will be a combination of screenings and performance art and will be held at Bread and Circus Theater in Kensington Market and is wheelchair accessible. We have secured amazing screening c ontent and are now looking for folks with interesting performance material to get on board the ArtCore train! Do you have a great, irreverent, hilarious, moving, sexy performance that you are ready to unleash upon the masses? LET US KNOW!
We’d really like to encourage: First time performers, men, people of colour and Aboriginal/First Nations performers, dis/Abled people, sex workers and generally fabulous people to let us know what you’ve got up your sleeves/under your pasties. Due to the nature and current content of the event, we regret that we are not looking for spoken word pieces.
Please forward this freely and email alison@goodforher.com with your proposals. When writing, please include the approximate length of the piece, any tech requirements, and anything else you might need to make this a fabulous event for you.
Thanks!
EDIT: What I didn’t include was a DEADLINE! Please get all proposals to me by Thursday, October 8 at noon. I know it’s not a lot of time but I have confidence in you!
How much do we love Erika Lust? Not only is she the smart cookie behind Five Hot Stories for Her and Barcelona Sex Project, she’s now working on a new flick that is sure to be another stunner. Check out this short (that will be a part of a larger project) called “Handcuffs”
One of Good For Her’s very favourite Feminist Porn Award winners for 2009 was Courtney Trouble’s Roulette. This movie proves that it is possible to show hot queer sex with couples with searing chemistry and sizzling diversity. Trouble is back at it, and Good For Her is excited to present the Canadian launch party for her second feature, Nostalgia.
Come watch as Trouble and Pepper are at home fooling around and watching porn, only to find that all of their favorite classic titles have been queered. Join them as they watch the mythical creatures, fresh faced angels, and tattooed misfits of the underground fuck, suck, and hold hands all the way to hell… or is this heaven? Inspired by classic porn that defined the genre, NoFauxxx.Com creator Courtney Trouble has twisted the past into the future of alternative queer porn. Step behind the queer door for a sneak peek of one of 2009’s new classics.
This evening will feature a screening of a scene from Nostalgia, saucy burlesque from Ceci Myplaymate, the hunks of Boylesque TO, a queer punk soundtrack to makeout to after, and RAFFLES GALORE! Including:
- 3 year-long memberships to NoFauxxx.com! (Trouble’s award winning website!)
- Copies of “Nostalgia” and “Roulette”
- Sexy Swag from Good For Her!
All money raised benefits The 2010 Feminist Porn Awards!
Wednesday, September 23, Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar (1214 Queen Street West). 7:30 to 10:30pm.
via Jezebel (and the babes at Hotmoviesforher.com), I just found out that HBO is planning a series starring Diane Keaton as a feminist who attmepts to invigorate feminists and the movement by starting a dirty magazine. My first reaction was excited - Feminist porn hits the mainstream! Something I’ve been dreaming about since I started working at Good For Her (and long before, too).
But now I’m worried. How is this going to work? How is porn for women going to be depicted? Is it going to be tongue in cheek, Porn for Women -styled (courtesy of the humour-fuelled Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative), or full of Candida-Tristan-Shine-kinda goodness? How are other issues around porn and feminism, like sex worker’s rights, sound labour practices, and positive and diverse representations of women’s sexuality going to be handled?
This news is also especially interesting hot on the heels of Violet Blue’s story that made the front page of CNN, “Are More Women OK with Watching Porn?“ It seems that more women are willing to admit that they like porn as much as guys do, and that we are all looking for quality adult entertainment that doesn’t insult us along the way. With coverage like this, it’s only a matter of time that the mainstream media looks at ways to grab a hold of these porn-lovin’ ladies as a primetime audience, too.
I hope that the writers and producers of this new show are talking to people involved in the business, because I really don’t want to groan my way through this show. There is no way an HBO comedy series is going to be particularly true to life, but it would be nice to see some realistic representations of what it’s like for women to work in the adult industry, and how the business can be re-molded through a solid dose of feminism.
And you know that no matter what, I’ll be watching - this is too juicy to miss.
diversity. Trouble is back at it, and Good For Her is excited to present the Canadian launch party for her second feature, 