SF PornFilmFestival Announces 2023 Film Selections and Annual Fundraiser
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SAN FRANCISCO — Festival organizers have announced the official slate for the 2023 San Francisco PornFilmFestival (SFPFF), running August 16th-27th.
The festival features in-person events broadcasting live from the Brava Theater, August 18th-19th, as well as online programming powered by streaming adult platform PinkLabel.TV, from August 16th-27th.
Attendees can look forward to in-person and virtual screenings, socials, filmmaker chats, and a vibrant collection of well-crafted and thought-provoking erotic and adult films.
A collection of 69 titles present an erotic smorgasbord with something for everyone, in a wide assortment of films exploring sexuality, spanning experimental to documentary.
This year’s festival features a fresh line-up of films premiering this year, as well as a look back at classic LGBTQ movies, and a new trend coming out after the initial wave of the pandemic isolation: group sex scenes.
The festival closes with BIG/BANG, a curation of who’s-who in contemporary porn-making around the world.
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Coinciding with the official selections announcement, organizers have launched the festival’s annual fundraiser, offering VIP and pre-sale tickets, limited edition t-shirts, PinkLabel.TV gift cards, and big sponsorship packages.
Tickets start at $20 USD for a virtual pass, and $30 for an in-person theater pass.
The fundraiser allows the international filmmaking community and its biggest fans to play a major role in supporting the event by helping to secure theatrical and virtual production expenses, and importantly, ensuring artist payment.
Festivities begin online on Wednesday, August 16th as FORE/PLAY kicks off a special 24-hour selection of films screening on-demand. If you miss any program, you can catch the RE/PLAY on-demand through August 27th.
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💦 Thursday, August 17th: Artists will come together in the morning, streaming online from across the seas in the MEET/GREET filmmaker chat. Later that evening, the festival’s opening film presents an early 2000’s San Francisco homegrown dyke porn, SUGAR HIGH GLITTER CITY. Filmmakers Jack Strano and Shar Rednour from SIR Productions will be in conversation with scholar Lynn Comella.
The landmark film is preceded by an excerpt from Houston’s 2000’s queer porn cult classic The Crash Pad. “This program is a must-see for fans of dyke and queer porn, and anyone curious about the history of an important yet often overlooked period in queer film history.” says festival organizers.
💦 Friday, August 18th: The festival gets physical with two action-packed shorts programs broadcasting live and in-person from the Brava Theater.
FUCKING/FUN screens joyful and hardcore shorts with local artists Ramses Rodstein and Jiz Lee in attendance. The narrative and explicit porn program continues with SEX/SCENE. Local highlights include CrashPad Quickies: Knotty Rell and Zuri Love by CrashPad director Ava LaPrima and No Man Like Me by trans creator Jaq Quicksilver.
International artists include Australian Into-You-I-See-Me exploring interabled intimacy and the United Kingdom’s Pointe to Please displaying the artistic parallels of ballet and pole dancing.
💦 Saturday, August 19th: We’re back in the theater with ART/SMUT presenting short films with an explicit and experimental focus.
Works include Big Sur Gay Porn, in which cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone revisits the production of a lost gay film and resurrects youthful adventures on the California coast, while a thermal camera reveals new ways of seeing queer pleasure and desire in Melting Point.
The festival comes to a grand finale with BIG/BANG, showcasing sex scenes by biggest movers and shakers in the queer and ethical adult scene: Midnight Tryst by Forplay Films (Los Angeles), Beer and Loving with Las Bangers by HardWerk Pictures (Berlin), RITES OF SPRING by Four Chambers (London), Babygurl's Big Birthday Bang by AORTA Films (New York) and CrashPad’s End of Year Special (San Francisco).
The global ensemble of films celebrates joyful sex, bodies, and represents the latest in contemporary adult filmmaking.
For the full program, visit sfpff.pinklabel.tv.
For tickets and to contribute to the fundraiser, click here.
Follow the festival on Twitter and Instagram. Direct inquiries to info(at)sfpornfilmfestival.com.
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