festivals

>How about a thumbs up?!

>We recently submitted a couple of proposals on topics we'd like to present at the next SXSW festival--and we'd love your thumbs-up support on either or both if you're so inclined.Both proposals have been included in the SXSW 2010 PanelPicker, the rather sadomasochistic tool that...

>Bring it, America!

>We originally noticed the art form in conjunction with the first annual Air Sex World Championship, held last fall in Austin, but haven't yet witnessed the act first-hand.That will change this week--for much of America--as the competition takes to the road in search of this...

>Amuse bouche?

>As we continue to tinker behind the scenes on CineKink NYC, coming up February 24th to March 1st, let us whet your appetite with this tasty morsel, a glimpse at The Auteur, a mélange of romantic comedy and raunchy satire that tells the story...

>Rated X in Amsterdam!

>For those of you fortunate enough to find yourself in Amsterdam this weekend--or with the wherewithal to grab a last-minute red-eye across the Atlantic--be sure to drop in for the cinematic antics at Rated X!More tongue-twistingly known as the Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival and...

>More grist for the mill.

>With news that Basil Tsiokos, long-time artistic director of NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, had recently stepped down from his post, we had more of that earth-shifting-beneath-us sense that the film festival world is truly changing. But even...

>Psssst!!!

>You probably won't get the inside scoop on what really goes down at the CineKink AfterGlow Party, but otherwise you'll find all kinds of useful insider knowledge crammed into Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers. Written by Christopher Holland, keeper of...

>Comedy, pathos and lots of naked, dangly bits!

>A stand-out at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, we've got our eyes on The Auteur, the sweet and raucous story of Arturo Domingo, the one-time leading director of art-porn cinema (Five Easy Nieces, Requiem for a Wet Dream, Full Metal Jack-Off), who finds himself...

>Too hot for Dallas!

>The perennial crowd-pleaser and CineKink award winner, Filthy Food, has run into another flap of controversy, this time at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. According to director T. Arthur Cottam, the trailer for the film was prevented from being posted to the event's...

>A fight to the finish

>The fifteenth and final New York Underground Film Festival kicked off last night and continues through April 8th at Anthology Film Archives.In a comprehensive profile on indieWire about the changing landscape of underground festivals in the US, organizers point to new distribution technologies that make...