Producers: Erica Fabulous & Carol Leigh
Curator: Laure McElroy
P.O. 210256
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-751-1659
http://www.sexworkerfest.com
Call for Entries*
The Festival sponsors ongoing screenings internationally and a festival in San Francisco.
Click for Online Application Form
Extended Deadline for Entries, March 15, 2013
The San Francisco Sex Workers Festival was established in 1998 to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker film and video makers and to screen works about sex workers and the sex industries from around the world. The Sex Worker Festival provides an opportunity to recognize and honor prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers, who have historically been a dynamic part of arts communities.
To date, the Sex Worker Festivals have screened nearly nearly two hundred works and generated much interest in the media. In addition, the festival presents performances and events. In 2005 Whore College was launched in conjunction with the Sex Worker Festival. Films and videos for the Festival focus on prostitutes’ rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for strippers; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on the international agenda; sex workers as artists; queer sex workers; sex work and gender identities; sex education, sex art, porn and erotica; portraits of strippers, prostitutes, doms, madams… We encourage diverse participation and diverse perspectives.
Guidelines
Qualifying Entries:
Films and videos must be:
1) directed or produced by someone who has worked in the sex industries or
2) about any aspect of sex work.
Please note: We are interested in art, experimental work, music videos, narratives, documentaries and all works that challenge conventional stereotypes and stigma regarding prostitution and other forms of sex work.
Upon filmmakers consent, all such works will be included in our location-based library of films about sex work, available for researchers and activists. If your work does not fit into these categories, please don’t submit it.
Entry forms are available online at our website. A separate application must accompany each work.
Deadline:
Entries may be sent on an ongoing basis. The extended deadline for the 2013 Festival is March 15, 2013, however later entries will be considered. (Please email us and let us know you sent it, or send us a link to the online video.) The festival will take place in the late Spring of 2013 (Dates TBA). The festival also sponsors ongoing screenings at festivals around the world and we accept work on an ongoing basis. Call 415-751-1659.
