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CINEKINK UPDATE/Annual Awards Edition - October 24, 2006
In this edition:
1) CineKink Choice
2) CineKink Best
3) CineKink Tribute
4) Brought to you by ...
Rounding out a near-week of parties and screenings, CineKink NYC filmmakers and fans gathered on Sunday night for the film festival's gala closing ceremony and announcements of awards in a range of categories.
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS - "CineKink Choice"
CineKink Choice awards, which go to feature-length works in competition during the festival, were determined by audience balloting at the close of each eligible work's screening. The 2006 award winners are:
CineKink Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature:
"Vice & Consent" (Howard Scott Warshaw, 2006, USA, 56 minutes) The candor, wit and wisdom of such prominent, long-standing members of the BDSM community as Midori, Jay Wiseman, Janet Hardy, Race Bannon, Cleo Dubois and Michael Blue, help shatter some popular myths about BDSM practice and its practitioners, looking instead at the gifts of intimacy that lie within.
CineKink Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature:
"O - The Power of Submission" (Ernest Greene, 2006, USA, 160 minutes) The 1954 S/M literary classic, "The Story of O," is updated to contemporary Los Angeles and given the hardcore treatment in this loving adaptation. Here, O is a tough and self-determined fetish photographer who is delivered by her boyfriend, Ray, to his brother Stephen's ultra posh mansion in the hills. (Featuring Carmen Luvana, Kiley Ireland, Shayla Laveaux, Justine Joli, Adrianna Nicole, Evan Stone and Tommy Gun, with a special guest appearance by Nina Hartley.)
CineKink Choice Award - Honorable Mention:
"Webcam Girls" (Aerlyn Weissman, 2004, Canada, 52 minutes) A funny and engaging visit with four outspoken pioneers of the girlcam frontier. Ducky Doolittle seduces her cyber-fans with a heady mix of fun and sexuality. Ana Voog uses her cam as a 24/7 performance art vehicle. Dionne Lowen quit her job selling cars to open an ethical adult site. And Teresa Senft, adding her notions of biography, privacy and micro-celebrity, declares in the future "everyone will be famous to 15 people."
JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORTS - "CineKink Best"
CineKink Best awards, which go to short works in competition during the festival, were determined by jury deliberation and ranking. The 2006 award winners are:
CineKink Best Narrative Short (tie):
"guy101" (Ian Gouldstone, 2005, UK, 8 minutes)
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.
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"Hitchcocked" (David Young, 2006, USA, 8 minutes)
A hot, casual encounter stirs up some surprising truths about love, life, online-dating...and danger.
CineKink Best Experimental Short:
"Filthy Food" (T. Arthur Cottam, 2006, USA, 5 minutes)
Eat it. Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it. Relax, it's just food. (Another dirty little short from the director of "Pornographic Apathetic," a previous CineKink best!)
CineKink Best Documentary Short:
"Want" (Loree Erickson, 2006, Canada, 9 minutes)
Explicit images merge with everyday moments for a different - and sexy - view of disability.
CineKink Honorable Best Mentions:
"Do You Take It?" (Kirby Ferguson, 2006 Canada, 3 minutes) The kinky cabaret duo, The Wet Spots, asks a crucial, musical question. (From another CineKink alum, Kirby Ferguson!)
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"Honey and Bunny" (Eva Midgley, 2004, UK, 10 minutes) One lovely afternoon, in a place not far away, Honey and Bunny embark on an exciting adventure.
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"Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography" (Becky Goldberg, 2003, USA, 37 minutes). A look at some of the women committed to making and supporting pornography that includes their feminist values, including Greta Christina, Nina Hartley, Sharon Mitchell and Tristan Taormino.
This year's CineKink jurors included filmmaker Francesca Rizzo, winner of a CineKink Best Award last year for her short "Sullivan's Last Call;" Thor Stockman, creator and presenter of the popular film clip program "S/M at the Movies: The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous;" and Bill Woods, a film festival programmer and curator of the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives.
FESTIVAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY MAINSTREAM DEPICTION OF KINK - "CineKink Tribute"
Recognizing extraordinary depiction of kink in mainstream film and television, the annual CineKink Tribute was presented to:
"Notorious Bettie Page" (2006, USA, 86 minutes)
Director: Mary Harron
Screenwriters: Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor and David Strathairn.
Producers: Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel and Christine Vachon
Executive Producer: John Wells
Distributor: Picturehouse
CineKink Tribute Honorable Mentions (aka The CineKink Nod):
"The Montel Williams Show" (CBS Paramount Domestic Television)
"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" (IFC)
"What About Brian?" (ABC)
Works eligible for consideration this year were those released or aired in the United States from October 1, 2005 until September 30, 2006.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
And still more sincere thanks to the sponsors of CineKink NYC for their help in keeping us vital! They are DDevious Delights, HX Magazine and Njoy, along with Arena Studios, Black and Blue Ball, FetishMovies.com, JT's Stockroom, Mercy Magazine, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Purple Passion, Redlight TV, Sissy Maid Academy and Wet Spots Music.
Community sponsors include Cake NYC, DomSubFriends, EditrixAbby, Gay Male S/M Activists, Leather Invasion, Lesbian Sex Mafia, NY Shooters, Pariah's MC, Polyamorous NYC and The Eulenspiegel Society.
If you have the opportunity, please join us in thanking them for their support of CineKink NYC - and of kink-positive film and video overall!
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