Rounding out multiple days of screenings and parties in its twelfth anniversary appearance, organizers for CineKink NYC/2015 announced the recipients of awards in a range of categories during the film festival’s closing celebrations held on Sunday, March 1, 2015

“It was an especially tight competition this year,” noted Lisa Vandever, CineKink co-founder and director, as she presented the awards. “It’s an indication of the overall quality of the works showcased this festival, that our jurors and audience had such a hard time choosing between them. And what we’re honoring tonight is the absolute best of the best.”

CineKink’s Lisa Vandever with award winners Andre Shakti (Marriage 2.0), Michael Nirenberg (Back Issues), Christina Court (High Shine) and Morgana Muses (It’s My Birthday…). photo by Stacie Joy

Audience Choice Awards for CineKink 2015 were given to Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story (Michael Lee Nirenberg) for Best Documentary Feature, with Marriage 2.0 (Paul Deeb) winning for Best Narrative Feature, and an Honorable Mention award going to the documentary Inside Her Sex (Sheona McDonald). A special festival prize, a CineKink Community Visionary Award, went to High Shine: 15 Years of International Ms Bootblack (Christina Court). The CineKink Choice awards were determined by audience ballot just following each eligible film’s screening during the festival.

In the shorts competition, juried festival awards went to It’s My Birthday and I”ll Fly If I Want To (Morgana Muses) for Best Documentary Short, The Gordon Game (Jared Robbins) and Kimi Kabuki (Yoko Okumura) tied for Best Comedy Short, Rubber Romance (Sophie Dros) and The Table (Izabel Grondin) tied for Best Dramatic Short, and Zolushka (Wes Hurley) for Best Musical Short. Honorable Best Mention awards were presented to No Artificial Sweeteners (The Madame), Tease (Ms. Naughty) and The Art of Spanking (Erika Lust).

Determining the shorts awards, CineKink jurors this year included Viviane Tang, ring-leader of the sex blog “Viviane’s Sex Carnival,” Bill Woods, a film festival programmer and curator of the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives, and Cheyenne Picardo, an alumnni CineKink filmmaker.

The sixth annual CineKink Bring It! award, determined by audience ballot during a presentation of excerpts showcasing current adult cinema, went to “(S)he Comes” (Petra Joy).

(S)he Comes

The CineKink Tribute, recognizing extraordinary depictions of kink and sex-positivity in mainstream film and television, was presented to the series Transparent (Jill Soloway/Amazon), for its “wry, yet tender look at the ripples created when one individual finally comes to terms with their true identity.” Honorable mentions for the CineKink Tribute went to several television series: Bob’s Burgers (Fox), The Mindy Project (Fox) and Outlander (Starz!). Works eligible for consideration this year were those released or aired in the United States from January 1 until December 31, 2015.

Making its 12th annual run February 24-March 1, 2015, and enjoying record-breaking attendance, with several sold-out programs, CineKink NYC featured a specially selected program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality. Billing itself as “the kinky film festival,” the event is dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television. With offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented at CineKink NYC ranged from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

Sponsors of CineKink NYC/2015 included Bowery Bliss, KinkyMedical.net and njoy, along with Conduit Enterprises, Dom Sub Friends, Leather Archives & Museum, Leather Pride Night NYC, Lyft, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Open Love NY, Pandora’s Box, Pleasure Salon, Poly Cocktails, Purple Passion and The Eulenspiegel Society.

Selections from CineKink NYC will be featured in a traveling version of the festival, slated to appear in various cities throughout the coming year.

CineKink NYC returns for its twelfth annual appearance on Tuesday, February 24th, bringing with it a specially-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality. In addition to screenings, plans for the festival also include a short film competition, presentations, audience choice awards, a fund-raising kick-off gala and a concluding afterglow party.

Billing itself as “the kinky film festival,” the event will run February 24-March 1, 2015. Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, works presented at CineKink NYC will range from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

“With so much attention on kink in the mainstream, and the release of ‘Fifty Shades,’ it’s exciting to be back with such a rich and diverse festival line-up,” said Lisa Vandever, co-founder and director of CineKink. “We’ve been keeping it kinky for twelve years now, and we’ll have offerings that will appeal both to those who’ve been with us since the start, and to those who have just recently been inspired to explore.”

The CineKink NYC festivities begin Tuesday, February 24th, at 8 PM, with a fundraising kick-off extravaganza to be held at Taj (48 W. 21st Street, NYC), a pansexual celebration that, in addition to music and sexy performances, offers several cinematic gems up on the screen.

The festival then moves to Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, NYC) from Wednesday, February 25 through Saturday, February 28, with several different film and video programs scheduled for each day.

A DIY filmmaking workshop, an awards celebration and an AfterGlow play party complete the festival’s run on Sunday, March 1.

WEDNESDAY
Among the headliners, first up on Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00 PM, the festival’s CineKink Season Opener screening of INSIDE HER SEX, a thought-provoking, boundary-pushing film, explores female sexuality and shame through the eyes and experiences of three women. Then, at 9:00 PM, contestants pantomime sexual encounters with imaginary partners in a raucous documentary, AIR SEX: THE MOVIE, that follows The Air Sex championship tour around the country.

THURSDAY
On Thursday, February 26 at 7:00 PM, BACK ISSUES: THE HUSTLER MAGAZINE STORY is a definitive look at the personalities that created what might be the most offensive magazine of all time. Then, at 9:00 PM, a double-feature, LOVE HARD and BODY OF GOD, celebrates the exploration of limits…be those of mind, body and/or soul.

FRIDAY
On Friday, February 27 at 7:15 PM, LUST STORIES is a hot set of lust-filled, female-centric shorts. And at 9:30 PM, A TRIBUTE TO CLUB 90 brings together four denizens of NYC’s “Golden Era of Porn” – Veronica Hart, Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera – for a rare public reunion and frank reminiscing.

SATURDAY
Kicking off Saturday, March 1 at 1:00 PM, HIGH SHINE: 15 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL MS BOOTBLACK pays tribute to the many woman-identified bootblacks of the leather community, and the traditions and practices that sustain them.

At 3:00 PM, in AGE OF CONSENT, the story of the Hoist, London’s first and only gay sex/fetish bar, coincides with the history of AIDS, gay gentrification and the ongoing struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity, including BDSM, in the United Kingdom.

At 5:00 PM, an annual porn showcase, BRING IT!, features a dazzling array of talent from today’s adult cinema, each representing a wide range of genres and visual styles, all stepping up with a hot sampling of their recent endeavors.

At 7:15 PM, a collection of kinky shorts, MORE THAN 50, moves beyond gradations of gray to celebrate a wide gamut of bondage, discipline, dominance, submission and sadomasochism.

And at 9:30 PM, the festival’s closing competition film, MARRIAGE 2.0, looks at the possibilities and pitfalls of an open relationship, following one couple on their search to balance personal freedom with emotional and sexual bliss.

SUNDAY
For those who may have been inspired to take a go at creating their own erotic cinema, a workshop, FROM FANTASY TO FILM: INTRO TO MAKING YOUR OWN PORN, will take place from 2:00 to 5:00 PM.

CineKink NYC concludes the evening of Sunday, March 1 at 7:00 PM, with a CINEKINK AWARDS CELEBRATION, including presentation of the annual festival awards, to be followed at 9:00 PM by the CINEKINK AFTERGLOW party, one last chance to mingle with like-minded festival-goers and enjoy a few additional screenings, this time in a relaxed play party setting.

The locations for all three Sunday events is Bowery Bliss, a club located in the Lower East Side; exact address will be provided to all ticket holders.

For more information, visit http://dev.cinekink.com.

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TICKETS AND PASSES
Tickets and passes may be purchased via http://cinekinknyc2015.eventbrite.com

ADMISSION
Tickets to screenings are $10; $8/seniors & students.

A limited number of CineKink All-Access Passes, covering admission to all screening programs/panels, plus all parties, are available in advance for $85; $60 for students/seniors; $45 for CineKinksters & Friends w/Benefits (CineKink member supporters).

Rounding out multiple days of screenings and parties in its eleventh anniversary appearance, organizers for CineKink NYC/2014 announced the recipients of awards in a range of categories during the film festival’s closing celebrations held on Sunday, March 2, 2014.

CineKink award winners Paul Deeb and Creamy Coconut.

“It’s so exciting to be stepping into the next decade of CineKink,” noted Lisa Vandever, CineKink co-founder and director, as she presented the awards. “If the quality of the works we’re honoring tonight are an indication, we’ve got great things ahead.”

Audience Choice Awards for CineKink 2014 were given to “Broken Side of Time” (Gorman Bechard) for Best Narrative Feature, with “The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies” (Wiktor Ericsson) winning for Best Documentary Feature. The CineKink Choice awards were determined by audience ballot just following each eligible film’s screening during the festival.

In the shorts competition, juried festival awards went to “Humain Chaleur” (Christophe Predari) for Best Dramatic Short, “Another Happy Anniversary” (Miranda Bailey) for Best Comedy Short, “Dear Jiz” (Ms. Naughty) and “Trains” (Paul Deeb) tied for Best Experimental Short, and “Black Folk Don’t: Do BDSM” (Angela Tucker) for Best Documentary Short. Honorable Best Mention awards were presented to “Music Box” (Anna Brownfield), “Tom’s Gift” (Todd Verow & Charles Lum) and “Un Bisous Americain” (JM Darling).

Determining the shorts awards, CineKink jurors this year included Viviane Tang, ring-leader of the sex blog “Viviane’s Sex Carnival,” Bill Woods, a film festival programmer and curator of the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives, and Miss Alyx, an alumnni CineKink filmmaker.

The fifth annual CineKink “Bring It!” award, determined by audience ballot during a presentation of excerpts showcasing current adult cinema, went to “de-railed” (Quinn Cassidy and Creamy Coconut), with a first-runner up slot going to “The Submission of Emma Marx (Eddie Powell and Jacky St. James).

The CineKink Tribute, recognizing extraordinary depictions of kink and sex-positivity in mainstream film and television, was presented to the film “Don Jon” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Relativity Media), for its “sly look at the myth-building realms of both porn and romance.” Honorable mentions for the CineKink Tribute went to the series “Masters of Sex” (Showtime), the television program “The Real 50 Shades of Grey” (E!), and to the film “Afternoon Delight” (Jill Soloway/Film Arcade). Works eligible for consideration this year were those released or aired in the United States from January 1 until December 31, 2014.

Making its 11th annual run February 25-March 1, 2014, CineKink NYC featured a specially selected program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality. Billing itself as “the kinky film festival,” the event is dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television. With offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented at CineKink NYC ranged from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

Sponsors of CineKink NYC/2014 included Bowery Bliss, Crystal Delights, KinkyMedical.net and Takedown Piracy, along with DistribPix, Leather Archives & Museum, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Purple Passion and The Eulenspiegel Society.

Selections from CineKink NYC will be featured in a traveling version of the festival, slated to appear in various cities throughout the coming year.

CineKink reminds adult industry filmmakers of the deadline for entries for its 2014 Bring It! adult cinema showcase, to be held in February during the annual “kinky film festival” in New York.
 
CineKink is seeking short films and videos for Bring It! that explore and celebrate a wide diversity of sexuality, with specific emphasis on and from the adult film industry. Submissions may also be excerpts from longer works. The offerings are intended to serve as a sampler of what styles of works are being created by current filmmakers in the adult industry. A winner will be selected from the Bring It! showcase, determined by audience vote of those present for the screening.

Petra Joy’s JOY CLUB/Bring It! 2013 winner

“Since modern-day porn wasn’t created with a theatrical audience in mind, we began excerpting adult works as a way to share those films with our audience in a way they would more easily–and comfortably– appreciate.” says Lisa Vandever, CineKink co-founder and director. “We’ve started to review some great submissions from the adult industry; we’d like to remind those who have yet to submit that the final deadline is Friday!”

In addition to the “Bring It!” screenings, CineKink’s “Pornapalooza” programming sidebar, traditionally scheduled during the Saturday afternoon of the festival, will also include works about porn and porn-making, as well as a panel discussion. Past panels have included topics such as “Feminist Porn,” a discussion on ethical porn-making, and “The State of Smut: NYC.”

Bring It! screenings, which became competitive in 2010, have featured works by such directors as multiple Bring It!-award-winning Tristan Taormino, as well as additional winners Petra Joy and Courtney Trouble, along with Buck Angel, Eli Cross, Dominick Ford, Ernest Greene, Nenna Joiner, Kimberly Kane, Eddie Powell, Candida Royalle, Madison Young, and more.

There is no restriction on production completion dates, as long as the work is completed at the time of submission. International submissions in most overseas formats are also accepted. The final postmark deadline for submissions is December 13th.

For more information and details on entry submissions, check out the CineKink call for entries or submit directly via Withoutabox.