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CINEKINK UPDATE/Annual Awards Edition - March 6, 2008
In this edition:
1) CineKink Choice
2) CineKink Best
3) CineKink Select
4) CineKink Tribute
5) You be the judge!
6) Brought to you by ...
7) CineKink on the horizon.. SxSW
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.
1) 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:
"Call Me Troy" (Scott Bloom, 2007, USA, 100 minutes)

CineKink Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature:
"Viva" (Anna Biller, 2006, USA, 120 minutes)
CineKink Choice Award for Best Experimental Feature:
"Silken Sleeves" (Maria Beatty, 2006, USA, 50 minutes)
CineKink Choice Award - Honorable Mention:
"Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation" (Michelle Johnson, 2007, USA, 48 minutes)
2) 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 2008 award winners are:
CineKink Best Narrative Short:
"Who's the Top?" (Jennie Livingston, 2005, USA, 22 minutes)
CineKink Best Documentary Short:
"Coming Out Spanko" (Tanya Bezreh, 2008, USA, 15 minutes)
CineKink Best Animated Short:
"Teat Beat of Sex" (Signe Baumane, 2007, USA, 4 minutes)
CineKink Best Experimental Short:
"Closer" (Aitor Echeverria, 2007, Spain, 7 minutes)
-tie-
"Salt" (Campbell Farquhar, 2006, New Zealand, 3 minutes)
Honorable Mention/Best Experimental Short:
"Crossing" (HP Comings, 2007, USA, 19 minutes)
CineKink Honorable Best Mentions:
"Office Mobius" (Seung Hyung Lee & Seungil Hwang, 2007, USA, 5 minutes)
"Something About Nadia" (Erika Lust, 2007, Spain, 21 minutes)
"Wash Me Clean" (Michael Immerman, 2008, USA, 30 minutes)
This years jury included Thor Stockman, creator and presenter of the popular film clip program "S/M at the Movies: The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous," Viviane, ring-leader of the sex blog, "Viviane's Sex Carnival," and Bill Woods, a film festival programmer and curator of the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives.

3) SPECIAL FESTIVAL AWARD FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION - "CineKink Select"
"Schwarzwald" (Richard Kimmel, 2007, USA, 59 minutes)

4) FESTIVAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY MAINSTREAM DEPICTION OF KINK & SEX-POSITIVITY "CineKink Tribute" Recognizing extraordinary depiction of kink and sex in mainstream film and television, the annual CineKink Tribute was presented to:
"Shortbus" (2006, USA, 106 minutes)
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Screenwriter: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Jay Brannan, Peter Stickles and Justin Bond.
Producers: Howard Gertler, John Cameron Mitchell and Tim Perell
Executive Producer: Wouter Barendrecht and Alexis Fish
Distributor: ThinkFilm
CineKink Tribute Honorable Mentions (aka The CineKink Nod):
"Lust, Caution" (Focus Features)
"The Oprah Winfrey Show - 237 Reasons to Have Sex" (The Oprah Winfrey Show)
"Zoo" (ThinkFilm)
Works eligible for consideration this year were those released or aired in the United States from October 1, 2006 until December 31, 2007.

5) YOU BE THE JUDGE!
You put all that time in the seats, be sure to make your opinion known! Our CineKink NYC community on B-Side gives you the ability to rate your favorites (and, though hard to fathom, not-so-favorites) and leave reviews on the films you saw throughout the festival.
All you need is an email address, register here to take part:
http://cinekink.bside.com/?_view=_register

6) BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
Many, many sincere thanks to the sponsors of CineKink NYC/2008 for their help in keeping us vital! They include Alt.com, Arena Studios, Bondage.com, Carousel Couples Club, DDevious Delights, HX Magazine, Njoy, Penthouse Variations and Soho Underground, along with B-Side Entertainment, Event Premiere, FetishMovies.com, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Purple Passion and Redlight TV.
Community sponsors include Cake NYC, DomSubFriends, Gay Male S/M Activists, Leather Invasion, Lesbian Sex Mafia, New York Boys of Leather, 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!

7) CINEKINK ON THE HORIZON
No rest for the rather weary - stayed tuned for all the exciting details on CineKink appearances at these upcoming events:
** CineKink @ SXSW (Austin – this weekend!)
Saturday, March 8th - 5 pm
CineKink's Lisa Vandever will moderate the "The Porn Police: Know the Rules," a look at the many restrictions on sexually explicit content that face filmmakers, bloggers, webmasters and other creative folk.
More info: http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/
**CineKink @ Winter Fire (DC)
March 21-23
We’ve got some filmic shenanigans in the works for this weekend-long pansexual mash-up, a favorite event that brings together the worlds of BDSM, swing, polyamory, tantra and etc. to meet and mingle. See you there?
More info at http://www.darkodyssey.com/
If you'd like to bring CineKink to your event - or know of a festival or theatre that might want to host us - just send an email to lisa (at) cinekink (dot) com.

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ABOUT CINEKINK NYC
Billing itself as "the really alternative film festival," CineKink NYC returned for its fifth annual appearance February 26-March 2, 2008, to be followed by a national showcase tour. Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, works featured at CineKink range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn - and everything in between.
More info: http://www.cinekink.com

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