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04/17/12 Film Panel Notetaker: Bringing Sexy Back: Where’s the Line Today?

02/21/12 F*Bomb: Dirty Pictures: Final Thoughts on Cinekink

02/17/12 Conflicted eXXXistence: A Cinekink 2012 Wrap-Up

02/15/12 Filmmaker Magazine: Reflections on the 2012 CineKink NYC

02/13/12 Examiner: Erika Lust, William Burke, Richard Buonagurio win big at CineKink

02/10/12 Conflicted eXXXistence: Reflections from Cinekink 2012

02/08/12 Examiner: Sexy Films: CineKink NYC 2012 Film Festival Underway

02/07/12 F*Bomb: SMUT in the City: Cinekink preview

11/14/11 Film Festival Secrets: CineKink call for entries and: what makes CineKink so special?

11/11/11 AV Club: Annual Kinky Film Festival to Dominate Chicago

11/11/11 Austin Chronicle: Working the Kink Out

08/03/11 LA Weekly: CineKink Film Fest to Host the Kinkiest Two-Night Stand L.A. Has Ever Seen

08/03/11 Willamette Week: You’re With Me, Leather

06/15/11 Las Vegas Weekly: CineKink festival’s sexy films stirred crowds and conversation

06/10/11 KNPR/State of Nevada: CineKink and Sex in Film

06/08/11 Las Vegas Weekly: Film and Kink Collide at CineKink

06/08/11 Las Vegas Weekly: Chatting up CineKink founder Lisa Vandever

03/10/11 Examiner: Sexy Q&A: CineKink Film Festival founder Lisa Vandever on sex in cinema

03/10/11 WHACK!: “Mind-expanding cinema for the cultured degenerate New York film geek!”

03/07/11 Examiner: Sexy Films: Indietro, Kink Crusaders, Rough Sex 2 win big at CineKink 2011

03/07/11 Filmmaker Magazine: CineKink 2011: Notes on Kink

03/06/11 Conflicted eXXXistence: Cinekink: Porn Again, Bring It! and Pride & Predelictions

03/06/11 Marty After Dark: Chasing Something in the Night

03/05/11 Conflicted eXXXistence: Cinekink: Adventures in the Skin Trade; Lust, Love, Life; and CAGED

03/04/11 Examiner: Sexy Films: CineKink 2011 continues in NYC with ‘Life, Love, Lust’ and ‘Caged’

03/03/11 Conflicted eXXXistence: Kink Crusaders

03/01/11 Wall Street Journal: CineKink: New York’s Naughtiest Film Festival

03/01/11 Filmmaker Magazine: CineKink Kicks Off…

03/01/11 Slant: CineKink 2011: Kink Crusaders

03/01/11 Sex Examiner: Sexy Films: CineKink 2011 NYC Film Festival, tonight through March 6

02/25/11 Whether You Like It or Not: Fuck the Gilded Phallus

02/24/11 Bad Lit: 2011 Cinekink Film Festival: Official Lineup

02/16/11 Alt Film Guide: CineKink NYC 2011: From Mr. Leather Contest to Erotic ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?’

12/15/10 LA Weekly: Everyone Loves a Good Submission. Send Yours to CineKink and Do it Now, Slave.

12/15/10 XBiz: CineKink NYC Gears Up, Makes Last Call for Entries

12/01/10 Moviemaker Magazine: 20 Coolest Film Festivals

11/16/10 AV Club: Slip into some leather for this weekend’s CineKink film fest

11/11/10 TBD: ‘Modern Love is Automatic’ imagines the Alexandria fetish scene

11/10/10 TBD: Cinekink: Your excuse to discreetly attend a BDSM dungeon party

11/09/10: Washington City Paper This Week in Repertory Film: Tracks, Polanski and Cinekink

10/07/10 Examiner: Sexy Films: CineKink film festival tour comes to L.A. this weekend

10/06/10 Fearless Press: Bite the Apple

09/29/10 LA Weekly: CineKink Kinky Film Fest is Coming Back to L.A.

06/23/10 Film Snobbery: Peep Show Interview w/CineKink Director Lisa Vandever/Pt 2

06/21/10 Film Snobbery: Peep Show Interview w/CineKink Director Lisa Vandever/Pt 1

05/13/10 Las Vegas Weekly: Kink n’ Grind

05/13/10 Las Vegas Weekly: Getting tied up with CineKink

05/13/10 Las Vegas Sun: CineKink film festival brings smart sexuality to Las Vegas

05/12/10 Examiner/Modern Love: Interview with founder of CineKink: Exploring the world of sexual diversity

05/11/10 Examiner/Sex & Relationships: Sexy Films: CineKink Film Festival comes to Sin City

02/25/10 Impossible Funky: The Kinky Film Festival…

02/24/10 Examiner: Sexy Films: CineKink NYC Film Festival winners announced, ‘S&M Judge,’ ‘My Sexuality’ on top

02/21/10 Kink+Culture: CineKink ’10

02/18/10 Time Out New York: The CineKink Film Festival: Sexing up the big screen

02/16/10 Filmmaker Magazine: CineKink Returns for its Seventh New York Festival

02/09/10 Bad Lit: 2010 CineKink: Underground Favorites And Full Lineup

11/19/09 SF Weekly: Work Out the Kink

11/19/09 Examiner: CineKink Film Festival in San Francisco

11/17/09 CarnalNation: CineKink Comes to San Francisco

11/13/09 Alternative Film Guide: CineKink San Francisco 2009

11/09/09 Film Festival Secrets: Programmer Profile: Lisa Vandever of CineKink

10/22/09 Village Voice: Best of NYC!!

03/06/09 New York Press: Kinky Film Festival Awards

02/26/09 SpoutBlog: Graphic Sexual Horror, Interview

02/25/09 New York Press: Whip Smart

02/25/09 Alternative Film Guide: CineKink NYC

02/23/09 Screen Grab @ Nerve: CineKink Film Festival: The Auteur

02/23/09 Carnal Nation: The Agony and the Ecstasy

10/24/08 Alternative Film Guide: CineKink Goes to Washington

07/10/08 SF Chronicle: Have Highbrow Porn, Will Travel – Violet Blue investigates CineKink, the X-rated Sundance

07/09/08 Open Source Sex: CineKink: The thinking person’s traveling erotic film fest

07/02/08 SF Weekly: Rated X-Static

03/11/08 The House Next Door: 3 Quickies: The Fifth Annual CineKink Film Festival

03/03/08 About.com: Sexuality: Women Make (Adult) Movies

02/19/08 Alternative Film Guide: CineKink NYC 2008 Film Line-Up

02/05/08 ErosZine: NYC Featured Event – CineKink

02/01/08 Bright Lights Film Journal: Little Stabs of Happiness

08/23/07 New York Times: Passion for Film Spurs New Festivals…

01/18/07 Violet Blue/SF Gate: The Rise of Indie Porn?

01/18/07 SF Guardian: Education to titallate – or titallation to educate?

10/26/06 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: Sissies and Daddies and Puppies (oh, my!)

10/18/06 Fleshbot: CineKink Kickoff Party

10/17/06 The Reeler: Making Whoopee: The Art of CineKink

10/03/06 ErosZine: New York Featured Event

10/06/06 Chris Gore: Film Festival Road Trips Worth the Gas

08/21/06 The Reeler: Reeler Pinch Hitter: Lisa Vandever, CineKink

11/07/05 SFist.com: “You are all a bunch of weirdos.”

10/31/05 The Sex Herald: A CineKink-y Experience

10/12/05 New York Press: Notes from the Sexual Underground

01/04/05 ErosZine: CineKink 2004

11/01/04 Bright Lights Film Journal: Where Kink is King

10/22/04 Gothamist: Lisa Vandever, CineKink organizer

news, posts & etc

05/16/12 Lynsey G: Stage Brother Cast Interview

05/07/12 Lynsey G: CineKink Interview w/Strap-On Jo!

03/31/12 Sweet Prudence & The Erotic Adventure of Bigfoot: Sweet Prudence @ CineKink

03/22/12 Film School Rejects: Cinematic Sex, ‘Kinky Cuties,’ and Amorous Education with Julie Keck and Jessica King

03/20/12 SF Weekly: Porn Producer and Performer Courtney Trouble Defies Body-Type Norms in Her Work

03/13/12 Huffington Post: The Naked Truth With Nina Hartley

02/21/12 VermeerWorks: Sirwiñakuy in the Press

02/15/12 XBIZ: CineKink Announces Film Festival Award Winners

02/14/12 AVN: CineKink Announces Winners of 9th Annual Kinky Film Fest

02/14/12 XBIZ: Adam & Eve’s ‘Truth About O’ Featured at CineKink Film Festival

02/09/12 XBIZ: CineKink Film Festival to Screen Brittany Andrews Documentary

02/08/12 AVN: Cinekink to Premiere Brittany Andrews Documentary In NYC

02/07/12 Amy Hesketh: CineKink 2012 – Sirwiñakuy

02/05/12 Frankie Frain Sexually Frank at CineKink

02/04/12 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: CineKink NYC/2012

02/02/12 AVN: CineKink Selects ‘Cabaret Desire’ to Open 9th Annual Film Festival

01/11/12 Vermeer Works: Sirwiñakuy in CineKink NYC

11/17/11 Good Vibrations Magazine: Call for Submissions: CineKink 2012

11/17/11 Chicago Reader Chicago Food Film Festival vs. CineKink

11/17/11 Chicago Reader Kinky Film Festival

11/15/11 Flavorpill Chicago Film Festival: CineKink

11/04/11 F*Bomb Forever SMUT CITY presents: Best of CineKink

11/04/11 AVN CineKink Film Festival Hits Austin for a One-Night Stand

10/26/11 Viviane’s Sex Carnival Submit to Cinekink! Call for Entries – CineKink/2012

10/26/11 IndieWire SXSW Unveils First Round of Session Spotlights for 2012 Festival

10/15/11 AVN CineKink: LA Shows Indie Shorts and Raises Money for Breast Cancer Awareness

10/15/11 XBiz CineKink: L.A. Holds Breast Cancer Awareness Raffle

10/11/11 XBiz CineKink Fetish Film Festival Heads to L.A.

10/06/11 Examiner: CineKink Film Festival issues call for entries for February 2012 Kinky Film Fest

09/15/11 AVN: CineKink Brings Kinky Film Festival to Los Angeles

08/04/11 The Oregonian:Indie & Arthouse films: ‘The Perfect Host’; 48-Hour Film Festival and more!

06/09/11 Las Vegas CityLife: CityLife Picks: CineKink [Get It On]

05/22/11 Tied Up Events: CineKink Kicks Off 2011 National Tour in Las Vegas

03/17/11 XBiz: ‘Indietro’ Wins Best Narrative at CineKink NYC

03/10/11 XBiz: CineKink Announces Award Winners at Film Festival

03/09/11 IndieWire: CineKink NYC’s Audiences Get Hot for “Indietro” and “Kink Crusaders”

03/03/11 Jiz Lee CineKink 2011 NYC

03/02/11 Time Out NY: Kink Crusaders

11/07/10 Love Bites: Clear your schedule Nov 19-20th for CineKink!

10/08/10 LAist: Pencil This In

09/21/10 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: Call for Entries: CineKink 2011

10/04/10 IndieWire: SXSW Film announces first 20 panels for 2011

09/21/10 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: A Taste of CineKink: Bite the Apple!

09/20/10 Tied Up Events: CineKink – Bite the Apple!

09/19/10 Go Magazine: The Very Best of NYC TV/Film

07/28/10 Willamette Week: Best of CineKink: 2010

05/25/10 King is a Fink TV: King is a Fink in Las Vegas (video)

05/23/10 King is a Fink: The Kings of Las Vegas – Cinekink Day #4

05/22/10 King is a Fink: The Kings of Las Vegas – Cinekink Day #3

05/19/10 King is a Fink: The Kings of Las Vegas – Cinekink Day #2

05/18/10 King is a Fink: The Kings of Las Vegas – Cinekink Day #1

05/15/10 Tied Up Events: Cinekink Las Vegas Day Two – Let the Films Begin!

05/14/10 American LowLife: Kink ‘n Sex ‘n Kinky Sex

05/13/10 Tied Up Events: Cinekink Las Vegas Day One – Pillow Fight with Nina Hartley

05/12/10 Las Vegas Weekly: Get cinekinky

05/14/10 Las Vegas Review-Journal: What’s Hot This Weekend

04/26/10 Saskia Vogel: XBIZ: Women and Porn

03/08/10 AVN: Cinekink Film Festival Honors Taormino’s Rough Sex

02/24/10 Bad Lit: 2010 CineKink Film Festival: Award Winners

02/23/10 Impossible Funky: CineKink Announces Award Winners at Annual Kinky Film Festival

02/19/10 Time Out New York: The weekend’s five big events, and what to do after

02/18/10 AVN: Dominic Ford’s ‘Whorrey Potter’ to Screen at CineKink

02/17/10 AVN: CineKink to Screen Excerpts from Industry Movies

02/17/10 XBIZ: Tristan Taormino’s ‘Rough Sex’ Chosen for Official CineKink Screening

02/16/10 Flavorpill: CineKink

02/16/10 Soho Journal: Why adults will love CineKink NYC

02/10/10 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: CineKink 2010

11/19/09 SF Weekly: “high-class smut”…

11/19/09 Flavorpill: CineKink

11/19/09 NBC: CineKink and Kinky Art

11/19/09 Bay Area Reporter: Mood Swingin’

09/30/09 Vivane’s Sex Carnival: Call for Entries – CineKink NYC/2010

02/28/09 XBiz: SexZ’s Corruption, Upload Set for CineKink Festival

02/24/09 Filmmaker Magazine: CineKink Returns to NYC

02/24/09 Gothamist: Pencil That In

02/23/09 XBiz: Director Taormino’s ‘Chemistry’ Makes N.Y., Slovenia Film Fests

02/20/09 Village Voice: Crack that Whip!

02/20/09 XBiz: CineKink Features 2 Films From Adam & Eve Pictures

02/19/09 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: CineKink 2009 At-A-Glance

10/22/08 New York Press: CineKink Accepting Submissions

09/25/08 XFanz: CineKink Now Accepting Submissions

09/23/08 XBiz: Entry Process Starts for CineKink

09/22/08 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: Call for Entries – CineKink NYC/2009

07/10/08 Flavorpill: More Flavor – CineKink

03/08/08 XBiz: Fifth Annual CineKink Film Festival Winners Announced

03/08/08 XBiz: SXSW Interactive Plans ‘Porn Police’ Panel Saturday

03/07/08 New York Press: CineKink Awards ‘Shortbus’ For Its Sex-Positive Penetration into Quasi-Mainstream Culture

03/06/08 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: CineKink Announces Festival Awards

03/06/08 It’s Been Fun: CineKink 2008

03/01/08 Vivane’s Sex Carnival: 2 girls 1 cup reaction videos & Cinekink

02/26/08 Gothamist: Pencil This In

02/26/08 Flavorpill: CineKink

02/26/08 Vivane’s Sex Carnival: Tomorrow: Cinekink’s Kick-Off Gala & Opening Night Screening

02/25/08 Babeland Blog: Watch Porn with Other People: CineKink

02/22/08 Waking Vixen: CineKink 2008

02/19/08 Village Voice: Hot Reels

02/14/08 XBiz: Karch’s 30-Minute ‘Insertz’ at CineKink NYC

02/12/08 Flavorpill: Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World of Orgasm

02/11/08 SpoutBlog: Viva CineKink

02/08/08 GreenCine: Fests and events

02/07/08 Filmmaker: CineKink Announces Line-Up

02/01/08 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: CineKink Announces Opening Night Selections

01/31/08 The Reeler: February Events Madness!

01/31/08 Alternative Film Guide: CineKink NYC 2008

01/08/08 The Reeler: January in NYC: Dances, Docs and Double Bills

12/06/07 Alternative Film Guide: Tony Comstock CineKink Screenings

12/01/07 Skin Two: LA&M presents..”CineKink: Chicago”

11/29/07 MidwestBusiness.com: From Left Field

11/28/07 TimeOut Chicago: The Best of CineKink

11/28/07 AVN: CineKink: Chicago Slated for Three-Night Run

10/31/07 The Stranger: CineKink: PDX

10/25/07 Fleshbot: Events

10/12/07 Fleshbot: Calling All Pervs

10/10/07 Gram Ponante: Submitting Your Kink – Whatever That Is

10/09/07 XBiz: CineKink Hosts Party on Coming Out Day

10/08/07 Alternative Film Guide: Liberty in Restraint Screening in NYC

08/08/07 XFanz: CineKink Celebrates Four Years

07/24/07 XBiz: L.A. Erotica Film Fest Adds CineKink as Partner

06/13/07 The Reeler: Fest News Round-Up: Awards Won, Dates Moved

05/24/07 XBiz: Pioneer Theater, CineKink Present ‘Torture Garden TGX’

04/11/07 XBiz: NYC Cinekink Fest Sets BDSM Show Friday

04/04/07 Viviane’s Sex Carnival: Five Questions about Blogging

03/08/07 Austin 360: Five must-do movies and panels at SXSW

03/06/07 Fleshbot: Morning Wood

02/20/07 AVN: Best of CineKink Festival Returns to New York

02/20/07 XFanz: Special CineKink Screening

01/17/07 SF Weekly: You like to watch?

01/16/07 SF Flavorpill: The Best of CineKink

01/14/07 SF Chronicle: This Week

01/05/07 XFanz: CineKink Visits San Francisco

11/16/06 Fleshbot: Sissies Gone Wild!

10/27/06 XBiz: O Takes Top Award at CineKink

10/27/06 AVN: CineKink Honors Adam and Eve’s O

10/25/06 Film Threat: CineKink Gives the Goods

10/24/06 XFanz: Bettie Page, O Win at CineKink

10/22/06 Waking Vixen: Community in the Dark

10/19/06 ScreenGrab @ Nerve: Video of the Day – Dick Ho…

10/18/06 New York Press: About Town

10/18/06 Waking Vixen: CineKink kicks off, and everything is a blur

10/18/06 ScreenGrab @ Nerve: Crawl On the Red Carpet

10/17/06 Filmmaker Magazine: Kinked Out

10/17/06 Green Cine Daily: Fests & Events

10/12/06 Darklady’s Sexpose: Touring Celebration of Cinematic Kink

10/12/06 XFanz: CineKink Panel: Adult in NYC

10/12/06 Waking Vixen: The State of Smut: NYC

09/29/06 The Reeler: Opening Night News

09/19/06 Cinematical: SXSW Announces Super Size Guests

09/13/06 XBiz: Adam & Eve Feature Accepted in NYC Film Festival

09/12/06 AVN: O Accepted at CineKink Film Festival

08/16/06 AND we’re on the Willamette Week “It List”!

08/16/06 Willamette Week: “…you owe it to yourself to be enlightened.”

08/10/06 The Portland Mercury knows where the action is!

08/01/06 Newcity Chicago grazes at ‘A Taste of CineKink – Chicago’

07/27/06 Time Out Chicago gets 5 minutes with Mistress Minax.

04/16/06 AOL CityGuide names us a “Top Erotic Escape”!!

03/15/06 Lock up your inhibitions with The Reeler

10/30/05 Filmmaker Magazine serves up “The Underground Gourmet”

10/28/05 “CineKink Whips ‘Em Out!” for FilmThreat

10/21/05 Screening Gotham with The Reeler.

10/18/05 The Reeler breathes in the fresh alt sex goodness!

10/17/05 “NYC’s sexiest film festival” sez Show Business Weekly!

10/7/05 An ‘Editor’s Pick‘ at GoNYC

10/4/05 Breaking news at AVN.

07/22/05 Blogged again by indieWIRE Insider!

03/02/05 SF Weekly considers the finer points of porn.

01/09/05 Reporting in Skin Two magazine, Darenzia suffers for our art.

10/31/04 Filmmaker Magazine decries our blatant Hollywood ass-kissing.

10/28/04 More from the Pursed Lips’ Debra Hyde.

10/26/04 Blog-phenom and CineKink filmmaker Debra Hyde reports on her time at the fest.

10/24/04 A from-the-seats assessment in Lolita’s Predictions and Predilections.

10/19/04 ErosGuide names CineKink a “Featured Event”

10/18/04 “CineKink Returns to Tickle Your Fancy”on Film Threat.

08/27/04 New York Blade report on CineKink fete: “S/M = sexy/mirthful!”

07/30/04 “Find your inner perv,” sez the New York Blade

10/21/03 B-listered in the New York Press.

10/16/03 “CineKink NYC Wrapped in Leather” on Film Threat.

10/08/03 “CineKink Announces Sexy Schedule” on Film Threat.

10/03/03 “Alternatives blossom in the shadow of the NY Film Festival” in New York magazine.

10/02/03 “Getting the kinks out” in Time Out New York.

10/02/03 Film Threat says “Bow Down to CineKink!”

09/25/03 “CineKink Announces Sexy Schedule” on Film Threat.

08/29/03: “Blackouts Can’t Kill the Kinkiness” on Film Threat.

08/23/03: CineKink NYC gets a nod on IN-NYC.com.

08/19/03: CineKink’s Launch Party made it onto Bernardo’s List of Internet-Industry Events and Parties.

08/12/03: CineKink’s Launch Party made the grade with Bust Magazine.

08/01/03: CineKink gets some ink with Paper Magazine.

07/18/03: “Getting Kinky” with indieWIRE

06/22/03: Film Threat announces a “Kinky Alternative”