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Berlin Gets Ready For Twin Sex Festivals

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:58 EDT

Do you live in Berlin—or wish you did? For the next two weeks, your answers should be "Yes," because that city is about to become the sexy time European capital of the world. Thursday is the opening of the Venus Trade Fair, which is sort of like the AVN Expo for people who don't gamble. It's mostly for companies to sell things to each other, but it is open to the public and honest-to-goodness pornstars will be there. Which is the perfect setup for the following week's Porn Film Festival. It's four days of porn the way it was meant to be seen—in another language with a crowd of intellectual European film snobs. Actually, where else you can see "The Doll Underground" and "Edward Penishands" on the same day? Ich bin ein intrigued!

· Venus Berlin (venus-berlin.com)
· Porn Film Fesitval Berlin 9 (pornfilmfestivalberlin.de)

Looking to screen your sexy short film about...

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:55:19 EDT

Looking to screen your sexy short film about your favorite fetish? Have a documentary about domination that's dying to see daylight? CineKink wants you! Submit your films about anything sexy (or sex-related) to the 2009 CineKink NYC film festival, and it just could be your ticket to film fame and fortune! Alliterative titles optional. (cinekink.com)

Did you attend the Barcelona International...

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:20:00 EDT

Did you attend the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival this weekend? Well, you were probably the only one, because the entire population of Spain was too busy watching their soccer team win the European Championships. (Or maybe people were just lost, because it was actually in Madrid?) (metro.co.uk)

Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival Goes To ... Madrid?

Richard — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:25:25 EDT

Heads up, international porn fans: the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival (FICEB) will be taking place this weekend—though for reasons that are unclear to us, it will be held in Madrid. (¡Que loco!) Alas, with gas prices and airline tickets and the US dollar being what they are, we're going to be missing out on the fun ... and from the list of porn celebrities in attendance (Sylvia Saint! Nacho Vidal!) it looks like there's going to be a lot of fun. Anyone want to be our unofficial correspondent? We'll even send you a Fleshbot paint-by-numbers press badge that may or may not get you anywhere! (ficeb.com)

Do not make that left turn at Albuquerque...

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:35:44 EST

Do not make that left turn at Albuquerque next weekend, but stay put and check out Pornotopia, the city's first erotic film festival. See, we knew there had to be smut fans somewhere between the two coasts. (selfservetoys.com)

Their Humps: HUMP! Amateur Porn Contest 2007

Fleshbot — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:15:22 EDT

Of all the sexy events we don't get to attend every year due to our enforced isolation in the Fleshbot porn blogging compound, Seattle's HUMP! Festival is one we regret missing the most: in order to encourage participants to submit their most uninhibited film and video entries without having to worry about that harpy in Human Resources seeing their naughty bits splayed all over the interweb at some point, all submissions are destroyed in front of the audience at the end of each year's program. Which means that those of us who didn't manage to make it to Seattle last weekend missed out on all those "couches doing the nasty, sex on roller skates, aliens fucking predators, hot straight foot-fetish videos, sex machines taking over the world, sweet and oily robot love ... come shots in SAM's Olympic Sculpture park, an evil gay genius doing scorchin' hot boys under the Space Needle, and ever so much more."

So we're psyched to see that at least a few of the clips from this year's HUMP! festival managed to make it online courtesy of their producers, including audience favorite "Alien Fucks Predator" (guess what that one's about?) and hardcore category winner "Everyone Likes Candy", a BDSM raunchfest that happened to be the only girl-on-girl entry in the competition. Of course, we'd love to have all the submissions on DVD so we can have our own screening sometime and join the fun, but we totally respect the decision to keep them under wraps. At least it gives us one more reason to visit Seattle next year. (Assuming we can figure out a way to escape from our porn blogging dungeon, that is. We've been trying for years now, and it's a lot trickier than you might think.)

· "HUMP 3 Winners!" (slog.thestranger.com)
· "Alien Fucks Predator" (superdeluxe.com, via theblogblog.net)
· "Everyone Likes Candy" (preview @ twobigmeanies.com)

CUM2CUT: Do-It-Yourself Porn Comes To Berlin

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:39:19 EDT

The Berlin Porn Film Festival is returning to the German capital later this month, but for those of you who don't have a major adult feature film ready to premiere at the event, it's not too late to get in on the fun. In the tradition of Seattle's HUMP! festival, aspiring pornographers are invited to shoot and submit their own smutty films through Berlin's partner festival, CUM2CUT. There's only one catch—you have to film and edit the whole thing in Berlin in just four days. Fortunately, there's a secondary "pr0n" competition for non-German visitors that allows you to upload a short film to their site and entries from both contests will be shown at the main Berlin festival. Was it Andy Warhol who said "someday everyone will be in porn for 5 minutes," because that future may have already arrived?

· CUM2CUT - Indie-Porn-Short-Movies Festival (cum2cut.net)
· PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN 2007 (pornfilmfestivalberlin.de)
· Thumbnail courtesy budding auteur Brooke Skye (brookeskye.com)

Previously: Getting A Leg Up In Porn, Berlin Porn Film Festival