Awardees of the year 2021
MARIT ÖSTBERG (S)
Filmmaker, producer, visual artist and journalist from Sweden. She sees porn is a creative way of working with sexual politics “When women, trans* and queers take their sexuality into their own hands, patriarchy is lost”
Interview
DEL LAGRACE VOLCANO (GB/S)
Artist, Activist, Interventionist treating gender variance, sexual connectedness and bodily mutations for over 30 year, international photographer and chronist of te queer community. Herm work is an iconic testament to love and the power of resistance. Interview
MORGANA MUSES (AUS)
Age-positive, sex-positive creative director, shares her journey of sexual exploration
“There is no expiration date on our sexual pleasure and journey”.
NENNA JOINER (USA)
Feelmore Filmmaker and performer
“Racism is an industry that we must fight daily to bankrupt.”
Lina Bembe (Mex/D)
The In-demand performer advocates for sexual education and the demystification of porn sex workers
“Porn is all about weaving stories with the power of shaking the status quo”
Interview
Awardees of the year 2019
LOREE ERICKSON (CA)
Queer femmegimp Porn Academic and activist whose research brings creativity and theory together. With her personal experience as a disabled person she explores issues of sexual self-representation, embodiment and identity. Want (2007) is her sex-positive reflection on sites of shame as resistance for people with dis_abilities.
SADIE LUNE (D/USA)
American born Berlin based multimedia artist, sex worker and pleasure activist. She took part in a variety of films and performances, exhibited explicit whore-positive work in museums, and shown her cervix internationally. She pushes boundaries in a sex-positive informing way and shows us how far and well different sex practices can go.
www.sadielune.com/
ADINA PINTILIE (RU), Touch me not
Exploring our bodies and sexualities beyond common norms and beauty standards makes us broaden our horizons and overcome restricting limitations. Stereotypes are questioned and intimacy is reclaimed with the power of open minds and bold honesty. Even – or especially people with disabilities are leading the way. www.facebook.com/touchmenotfilmpage | www.manekinofilm.ro
DWAYNE YUNG (D)
Writer, performer and video artist exploring issues of race and identity from a queer Chinese-Canadian perspective. He reveals how our views on sexuality are impregnated by prejudices in a fun and loving way.
www.wayneyung.com
NAN KINNEY (USA)
Produzentin und Regisseurin von Fatale Media, die erste Pornofilme von und für Frauen in den späten 80er-Jahren realisierte. Sie ist außerdem Mitgründerin der ersten und legendären Lesben Sexzeitschrift On our backs (1985) zusammen mit Deborah Sundahl und Susie Bright. Nan brachte selbst definierten „lesbischen Sex“ in den Mainstream Porno und lehrte Frauen*, wie sie einen Strap-on anziehen. Bend over Boyfriend wurde ein internationaler Bestseller. www.fatalemedia.com
ANNA BROWNFIELD (AUS), The Band
In her movie The Band the directress Anna Brownfield citically discuses the male-dominated music industry and conventionalizes the attributed potency of the musicans with cutting irony. At the same time female characters including groupies are repesented as equally powerful, as they know exactly how to satisfy their desires.
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Awardees of the year 2017
MARIA LLOPIS (E) As a queer artist and activist, Maria deals with practices around pro-sex feminism or transfeminism. For her intimacy is a powerful force of creation and a necessary political weapon for questioning the society. Together with Águeda Bañón she invented Girlswholikeporn in 2002 to explore alternatives. Her actual focus deals with sexual motherhood, orgasmic childbirth and the performativity of gender. www.mariallopis.com | girlswholikeporno.com
SKY DEEP (USA/Berlin) Music producer, DJ and activist will be honoured for her first film “Enactone”, which connects to her music career and activism with it’s sound design and political story. As a community and arts activist she created the “Reclaim the Beats” Festival for the visibility of queer and people of color. She is also active at the female:pressure collective for female artists.
DORRIE LANE (USA) Pioneer and sex educator Dorrie Lane invented the worldwide famous wonderfull vulvas to explain female anatomy to her daughter. In the early 90ies she produced with her label “House O´Chicks” films about the female ejaculation and showed women of different age and famous sexstars discussing and performing selflove. www.houseochicks.com
MS NAUGHTY (AUS)
She created women’s erotica online since 2000, one of the oldest erotic sites for women is “ForTheGirls”. Ms Naughty has directed over 60 erotic short films and a feature film and also written extensively about porn and feminism. She is very aware of the sex-positive depiction of masculinities and open for the influence of genderqueer. www.BrightDesire.com | www.forthegirls.com | www.msnaughty.com
CHANELLE GALLANT (CA)
The activist-writer is focussed on sex and justice and is a long-time sex work organizer and a queer femme powerhouse. In 2006, she came up with the idea for the Feminist Porn Awards. She is working on a book on exploration of sexual labour. chanellegallant.com
BISHOP BLACK (GB/BERLIN)
Artist and performer. Being a person a colour with in the porn industry has been one of the driving points to working within the ethical porn movement, as well as exploring the ideas of gender and sexuality as fluid constructs.
Awardees of the year 2015
BUCK ANGEL (USA) The man with the pussy is an absolute pioneer not only for the trans-community: as the first ever transporn actor who gained significant recognition, he knows the conservative sex industry and understands how difficult it is to land alternative roles outside the fetish- and freak categories. As a result, he campaigns for the trans-community and their sexuality, and fights for pussy power. His movies „Sexing the transmen“ are completely supportive documentary porn movies in which he pleads for sexuell diversity and self-determination. www.buck-angel.com
JENNIFER LYON BELL (NL)
Her specialty is slow-sex as well as a realistic and pleasurable representation of sexuality with a focus on female pleasure. She captures the changes of the skin during sexual stimulation with her camera and so shares unusual and extraordinary perspectives that are demonstrated by teachers and (female) sexologists alike. Her highly intelligent porn movies support sexual communication while also toying with the roles of the actors and the audiences.
www.blueartichokefilms.com
GOODYN GREEN (DNK/Berlin)
In her movies, the danish photographer who lives in Berlin offers queer erotic in a highly aesthetic and artistic way. By showing sexually strong people and thematizing androgyny and masculinity, she contributes to the sex-positive education. www.goodyngreen.com
JIZ LEE (USA)
Queer porn star whose personality simply defies all gender boundaries. They distinguished themself as a porn star in „The Crash Pad“ by Shine Louise Houston as well as in several other sex-positive and alternative erotic movies. In the meantime, they also revolutionized more straight porn movies through their presence. They work as the Marketing Director for Pink & White Productions, and is a professional porn performer. www.jizlee.com
GALA VANTING (AUS) is an erotic imaginist, movie producer, sex worker, BDSM enthusiast, and sex teacher, as well as a full time pleasure activist. Her feminist concern is the democratization of sexiness, the sex positive access to education as well as the right to pleasure for everyone, regardless of her/his background. Using slow porn and sensate films, she offers sophisticated choices with an intellectual stimulation. msgalavanting.com
Awardees of the year 2013
MONIKA TREUT (D) is at the very forefront of the German sex-positive pioneers. With movies such as „Virgin machine“ or „Female Misbehavior“, Treut moved the filmic focus towards female sexuality. She wrote her doctor thesis about the image of women in Sades and Sacher-Masoch novels and made a touching movie out of it, „Seduction: the cruel woman“. „Gendernauts“ makes her part of the avant-garde in another genre, as she was already thinking about trans* people back in 1999 and managed to make the plurality of sexual identities accessible to the german viewership. http://www.hyenafilms.com Laudatio
JOSEPH KRAMER (USA) is the expert when it comes to holistic male sexuality. He has been making and producing movies for over 10 years. He also developed a taoist erotic massage and originated the „Body Electric School“ and the „Orgasmic Yoga Institut“. His main interest is the connection between sexuality and spirituality. The massages „Fire on the mountain“ and „Fire in the Valley“ that he developed with Annie Sprinkle stated both of them as sexperts. He teaches somatic sexuality at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. www.erospirit.com Laudatio
CLEO UEBELMANN (CH) created a myth called “Mano Destra“ when she was only 22 years of age. Screened 1985 at the first SM Conference for Women „Secret Minds“ in Cologne it initiated a debate about SM. The movie displays a bondage session of dominatrix and her playmate, which demands absolute attention and awareness for both of them. The music, played by the female new wave band Vinyl is as cultic as the movie is a historical document of the SM movement. Laudatio
SHU LEA CHEANG (TWN/USA/F) realized with „I.K.U.“ (2000) the first radically funny sci-fi porn or cyber punk porn. It was also the first pornographic movie that was shown at the Sundance Festival. Her multifaceted work revolves around fluid transitions in sex and sexuality, media and reality. She questions oppositions and shows the political within the private and digs into power structures and dependencies. And the best part: the public is always invited to participate in that process! http://i-k-u.com/ Laudatio
LOLA CLAVO (E) is a London-based Spanish representative of the sex-positive feminism, who is nominated for her creative implementation of lesbian sexuality. In her work she is exploring sexuality, post-pornography and queer theory. Clavo is the cofounder of an art collective Exotica Loom. www.lolaclavo.com Laudatio
Awardees of the year 2011
CATHERINE BREILLAT (FR): Author, filmmaker and actress; international pioneer in the depiction of female sexuality. She has acted in “The Last Tango of Paris”, participated in the film script of “Bilitis” to considerable degree and also gained her vocational reputation as an author and director of socio-critical erotic themes such as “Romance”, “A ma soeur” or “Sex is comedy” , “Pornokratie”. More often than not, she turns her self-authored novels into films, always centering on sexuality as a means of finding one’s own identity. Laudatio
RUSTY CAVE (GB): London-based filmmaker who had been the first European to present “100 per cent lesbian Eroticism,” and she took this with the usual English sense of humour. Her sex comedies show lustfully invulved women in witty scenarios – as in “Knock Knock” and “Madam & Eve” Laudatio
MIA ENGBERG (S), Dirty Diaries She has called for “Feminist Short Porns”, accompanied by a manifesto, she has collected a bundle of all genders and sexualites that is both colourful and convincing. A special feature is: Dirty Diaries had been supported by the Swedish government! For more infos see: www.dirtydiaries.se Laudatio
EMILIE JOUVET (FR) has celebrated her debut in the sex-positive film scene with “One Night Stand” whilst “Too much Pussy” is a documentation of a European X-road-show of female sex-activists. www.emiliejouvet.com Laudatio
With special thanks for giving sex-positive support: Amanda Palmer & The Young Punx w/ Peaches With her clip of music “Map of Tasmania”, taken from the album “Amanda Palmer goes down under”, she lends her support to young women who are finding their own styles (including that for intimate haircuts) and also encourages them to go against the normative standardisation. www.amandapalmer.net
Awardees of the Year 2009
CANDIDA ROYALLE (USA), One of the first feminist porn producers, she can refer back to a rich life´s work – one that includes more than 30 films by now. She has remained active in the field of independent production to this very day, distinguishing herself with humorous and intelligent porns that show much more than mere emotions, but also high-class dialogues. She is one of the few filmmakers who are in support of Safer Sex, and she also depicts it in her films. www.candidaroyalle.com Laudatio
ANNIE SPRINKLE (USA)
Porn queen and performance artist has earned respect for a multi-facettet life’s work and she has gained her unforgettable reputation with loving films on sex-education as well as natural self-presentations. She is now doing pioneer celebrationg Ecosex with her partner Beth Stephans
www.anniesprinkle.org Laudatio
MARIA BEATTY (USA)
She is a renowned U.S-American from Paris whose numourous films have been shown in the Museum of Modern Art. Her highly aesthetic films stand out for their precise details in the re-enactment of lust; as such, they constituted a brand-new category of their very own, namely: “Film Noir Erotique“. www.bleuproductions.com Laudatio
SHINE LOUISE HOUSTON (USA)
The indie-porn filmmaker has conquered the feminist queer scene and enthused Europe with explicit and suspense-packed sex scenes, competent and stimulating performers, gender trouble and, at present, with a sex film feature. www.pinkwhite.biz Laudatio
PETRA JOY (D)
She is a filmmaker who lives in London. She implements women’s fantasies as well as women’s lustfulness in artistic terms and thus, she has already conquered the commercial market in Europe. www.petrajoy.com Laudatio
S.A.F.E.
The surprise award was given to the group who have brought the topic of Safer Sex and lesbians to the film screen and have also placed their focus on handicapped sexuality. They have been the first to do so within Germany. Laudatio
