documentary

Couples sought for HBO/BBC Worldwide Documentary About Alternative Relationships

by Viviane on 06/25/2024

in media

I’m sharing an email from someone working on a documentary about couples and alternative relationships:

Hi there, I’m writing to you from HBO and BBC Worldwide productions. We’re working on a documentary film about couples, and are seeking couples in various alternative relationships who are interested in being interviewed for the film.I wanted to reach out to your organization and see if you know any couples who might be interested in being interviewed, and/or if you could forward our request to your participants.

We’re seeking NYC-based couples in all different types of relationships; gay, straight, poly, involved in the BDSM/kink scene, trans couples, etc. We’re primarily looking for couples in the 20-40 age range, but we’re open to all folks who are open and confident enough to talk about themselves publicly.

The documentary will focus on the secrets of successful relationships and throw light on how different partnerships can survive and thrive. The film is meant to be upbeat and positive, showing that whatever form it comes in, love is universal.

If chosen, the couple would only need to be available for one day of filming, during the month of August.

Anyone who is interested or has questions should feel free to call or email me any time. All inquiries will be in confidence, and there is no obligation to take part in the film. I’m happy to chat and answer questions!

Please let me know if you might be able to help us put the word out, and if you have further questions for me about the project, don’t hesitate to ask!

Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide.

Take care,
Jess Ansary

email: relationshipdocumentary@gmail.com

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Bookmarks

by Viviane on 11/05/2024

in del.icio.us

  • Facebook and adult social networking: A dream that’s all wet | Violet Blue| ZDNet – That’s what a perfect Faceporn might look like. All of the good aspects of Facebook: finding people with similar interests that aren’t necessarily about sex, but with whom you could also share a dirty gallery with for fun or… or more. Sharing links and videos with friends you’ve chosen in your own network, without the fear of censors deleting your posts without notice.
  • To NSFW or not to NSFW? (NSFW) – Roger Ebert’s Journal – Now as to the problem of the workplace. I understand there will be pictures on a computer screen that will be offensive. I get that. Why will they be offensive? Perhaps because they foreground a worker’s sexual desires, and imply similar thoughts about co-workers. Is that what’s happening with the blog entry on Hefner? Is anyone reading it for sexual gratification? I doubt it. That’s what bothers me about so many of the New Puritans. They think I have a dirty mind, but I think I have a healthy mind. It takes a dirty mind to see one, which is why so many of these types are valued as censors or online police.
  • ‘Client 9′ Filmmaker Focuses On Spitzer’s Foes : NPR – Filmmaker Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, suggests that Spitzer’s demise wasn’t just about sex — that the many enemies Spitzer made on Wall Street and in the New York state capital at Albany may have contributed to his political demise.
  • Oakland home to nation’s first transgender trial judge | SF Gate – Oakland resident Vicki Kolakowski became the first transgender trial judge in the country when she won Alameda County’s vacant seat on the county’s Superior Court bench in yesterday’s election.

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Pre-release screening: Brett and Melanie: The Erotic Documentary with Tony Comstock

by Viviane on 10/14/2024

in Events, movies, Tony Comstock

brettmelanie Pre release screening: Brett and Melanie: The Erotic Documentary with Tony Comstock

A sneak preview of the seventh in Tony Comstock’s ongoing Real People, Real Live, Real Sex documentary series, Brett and Melanie: Boi Meets Girl is an exploration of sexual pleasure in committed relationships and the problematic place of explicit sexuality in cinema. ”Brett and Melanie” depicts a butch/femme couple, and opens up questions about strength and vulnerability in the context of how we portray and interpret gender. Throughout Brett and Melanie’s interview, there is a constant dance of who is strong for whom, of who is vulnerable and who nurtures; and this dance continues when Brett and Melanie make love.

By including frank footage of Brett and Melanie’s lovemaking along with their candid testimony, the film also opens up questions about the meaning of reality in the context of documentary filmmaking, and explodes preconceptions about the place of sexuality and eroticism in cinema.

Curated by Colin Weatherby, and followed with a panel discussion exploring cinema, sexuality, gender, and love with Velvet Park Managing Editor Diana Cage, Cinekink Film Festival Director Lisa Vandever, and Tony Comstock.

Location: Union Docs, 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Plan your route using Hopstop)
Cost: $9 suggested donation

Union Docs listing

About Brett and Melanie: Boi Meets Girl
2010
Length: 54 mins.
Acquisition Format: Super16mm film and 24p video
Presentation format: 24p DVD

“Brett and Melanie: Boi Meets Girl” is the seventh in Tony Comstock’s ongoing Real People, Real Life, Real Sex documentary series, an exploration of sexual pleasure in committed relationships and the problematic place of explicit sexuality in cinema.

“Brett and Melanie” depicts a butch/femme couple, and opens up questions about strength and vulnerability in the context of how we portray and interpret gender. Throughout Brett and Melanie’s interview, there is a constant dance of who is strong for whom, of who is vulnerable and who nurtures; and this dance continues when Brett and Melanie make love.

By including frank footage of Brett and Melanie’s lovemaking along with their candid testimony, the film also opens up questions about the meaning of reality in the context of documentary filmmaking, and explodes preconceptions about the place of sexuality and eroticism in cinema.

About Tony Comstock
In a world awash in sexualized imagery, why does so little of it speak to the common pleasurable reality of sex? A filmmaker and photographer for more than 20 years Tony Comstock has explored this and other aspects of the human condition. Subjects of Comstock’s films have included love, sex, 9/11, indigenous fisheries, hurricanes, refugees, HIV/AIDS orphans, and the visualization of God. His current focus is the Real People, Real Life, Real Sex series. Reaction to these films has ranged from film festival laurels and critical and popular acclaim, to police raids on screenings and intimidation of DVD retailers.

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Film Society of Lincoln Center: Orgasm Inc

by Viviane on 05/03/2024

in Events, women

Location: Walter Reade Theater, 65th Streeet near Amsterdam Avenue map

When filmmaker Liz Canner took a job editing erotic videos for a pharmaceutical company’s drug trials, she was permitted to film the company for her own documentary. Her employer was trying to develop the first Viagra drug for women to treat a brand-new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). But are her employer and other medical companies actually taking advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion-dollar profits? Orgasm Inc. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, and desire.

Info at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s website

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Bookmarks for February 25th

by Viviane on 02/25/2024

in del.icio.us, sex

  • Report: Teen gets 15 years for Facebook blackmail | Digital Media – CNET News – A Wisconsin teenager convicted of using Facebook to blackmail classmates into sex was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report.
  • Apple creating “explicit” category for App Store | TUAW -
  • Ask an Expert: How to Watch Porn on Your iPhone – iphone porn – Gizmodo -
  • CineKinkster: And the winner is… – Rounding out multiple days of screenings and parties in our seventh(!!) annual appearance, here are the CineKink awards for 2010…
  • CineKink ’10 | kink+culture – This years CineKink was the best I’ve seen. I didn’t love everything I saw, but as a whole the quality and diversity of films has gotten much, much better. What was really great was that so many of the film makers weren’t into BDSM themselves! It’s so good to see positive images of kinky people, not as villains or as comic relief, but as ordinary folks with all of the complexity as anyone else.
  • Google Gets Sued Over Buzz: Why It Should Have Said “Please?” | ReadWRiteWeb – It seems that some others think this lawsuit is merely a “pure money grab”, but we think that Google’s actions can have real-world consequences for the more than 30 million Gmail users it signed up for the service without properly testing it beforehand. And even if they had properly tested it beforehand, those people signed up for an email service, not a social network.

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