Author: CineKink

>Yeah, whatever.

>The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times are both agog today with confirmations that the YouTube.com webcam musings of Lonelygirl15 are actually the work of a team of filmmakers looking to make an attention-getting break into the business.Again, whatever. No, it's not...

>I am a poverty and obscurity addict.

>For those of us still deluded enough to believe occasionally entertain the fleeting notion that independent filmmaking is might be the surefire route to fame and fortune, director Caveh Zahedi interviews, well, himself, on the difficulties of bringing his latest opus, I Am A Sex...

>Hey, how do we get that job?

>By way of the Smoking Gun, word of yet another crackdown in the U.S. government's war on terror obscenity. According to the report, federal officials announced the arrest on Wednesday of Danilo Simoes Croce, who was charged with "conspiracy to distribute obscene material, a...

>Alumni News: Steven Shainberg, Erin Cressida Wilson and Andrew Fierberg

>Steven Shainberg, director of Secretary, which took home the inaugural CineKink Tribute at CineKink '03, has reteamed with screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson and producer Andrew Fierberg in creating Fur, a roughly biographical look at photographer Diane Arbus, who was renowned for shooting outsiders, freaks and...

>Oh, joy.

>And another TiVo alert for tonight, this time for a Primetime: The Outsiders repackaging of several previously aired reports. Entitled - cough - "Strange Arrangements," topics for this shiny new episode include "swinging, asexuality and marriage between cousins." Reports on...

>Alumni News: Elizabeth Elson

>We're delighted to hear that the recent work of Elizabeth Elson, director of Born in a Barn, winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at CineKink '05, will be featured on this month's episode of In The Life, the gay and lesbian newsmagazine....

>Um. Wow.

>On our way out of the multiplex the other day, we noticed the rather demure posters for This Film is Not Yet Rated and a banner instructing us to visit IFC.com to see the posters "they wouldn't let us show you!" Later, in one...

>What’s afoot with Mr. Polanski?

>Join us in welcoming back The Reeler from whatever respite he may have enjoyed in his time away and, while he gets reacclimated, there's still time to catch up on the havoc that was wrought by a week of guest bloggers filling in for...

>But will it play in Sydney?

>From director Tony Comstock comes news that his latest documentary, Damon & Hunter, which mixes a couple's engaging and intimate interview with scenes of them having sex, has met with the ire of the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification and is not...

>Catching up on old news… October dates

>Scheduled for October 17-22, 2006, the fourth annual CineKink NYC will feature a carefully-curated program of films and videos that explore and celebrate a wide diversity of sexuality. In addition to screenings, plans for the festival also include a short film competition, audience choice awards,...