AVN's Mark Kernes goes to San Francisco this weekend to attend the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival. The Festival is being held at the Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street [near Valencia]; and Artists Television Access [992 Valencia]. The dates of the festival include shows May 7 and 8th at the Roxie. This includes videos/parties and panel discussions. Sunday's events are being held at ATV.
Various events are priced on a sliding scale, but $50 buys a festival pass for all events, all three days.
The Roxie is featuring 12 different shows over Friday and Saturday. The screenings are continuous.
The festival provides a forum for the accomplishments of the sex worker film and video makers. The feature work of this festival is a 35mm feature titled Gun For Jennifer by stripper Deborah Twiss and Todd Morris, along with a multi-award winning video, The Operation by Marne Lucas and Jacob Pander.
Gun For Jennifer, gunforjennifer.cultnet.fi will be shown twice. Twiss will be available for interviews.
Other new works include an intimate and provocative documentary, Sacrifice, by Ellen Bruno about young girls working as prostitutes to support their families in Burma. Porn industry documentaries include Daddy, Make Me a Star - an insiders' expose of trends in the porn business; and Wadd - The Life and Times of John C. Holmes, the true story behind Boogie Nights.
Annie Sprinkle's new video history of porn is also featured in a pre-release screening.
Work from 'PORN 'IM 'AGE 'RY: Picturing Prostitutes, by Carol Jacobsen, which was censored at the University of Michigan Law School and resurrected by the ACLU, will also be screened including The Salt Mines by Carlos Aparicio and Susanna Aiken.
For more information call Carol Leigh at 415-751-1659.
