Press Kit "S*x, P*rn & Education"
BASIC INFO
Director: The Raw Angels
Film length: 19min
Format: Digital. Full HD. 2,35:1. Color. Stereo
Project Type: Documentary, Short.
Genres: Documentary, women, feminism, sex, porn.
Country of filming: Germany, Spain.
Language: English, Spanish.
SYNOPSIS
S*X, P*RN & EDUCATION is a plunge in to the thoughts and desires of 7 individuals who fight against the heteropatriarchal inheritance through feminist porn, images of explicit sex from a more feminine point of view, made for a society that needs more sex education and less pressure of the powers that be. A sexual revolution.
ABOUT THE FILM
This project arose in mid-2018 after conversations about feminist porn with the journalist Salvador Martínez. The idea was to get into the subject by conducting interviews with some of the most relevant characters in the scene. Without a clear initial structure or budget or production whatsoever, the first interview was organized that would serve as a key to carry out those that came later.
THE RAW ANGELS
The Raw Angels were founded in Berlin in 2020 with the goal of shooting documentaries. This alternative project are formed by:
POL (Director)
Born and raised in Granada (Spain, 1979)
Videographer, living in Berlin. He studied Architectural Technologist in UGR (Spain). He is a self taught videographer that learnt all the film skills by documenting mostly weddings. He won the best TV spot in the Agripina Awards 2012 (Spain). He got the a Special Jury Mention in the Short of the Year Festival Summer 2020, the monthly short film winner in the Flash Film Festival Berlin and also winner in the Short Film Festival 2020 for his short film Sologamy (2020). He also got several awards due to his wedding films work. He has made a lot of workshops and conferences for wedding photographers in France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, México, Chile and Morocco
Mónica Muñoz (DoP)
Born in Caracas (1980) and raised in Santiago (Chile).
Photographer, living in Berlin. She studied photography in Chile. She worked for newspapers, magazines and as a concert photographer. She made social documentarie projects like: “Oblivion in yard 11” Photos in a mental institution for 7 years and also the project “Eduardo is Pamela Billut” about a drag queen for 14 years. She has participated in photo exhibitions in Chile and Barcelona. She got an Honor Mention in FIFVAL 2019 (Valdivia, Chile). She has been published a Photobook by Metalibro (Chile) for a chilean photographer series. She has made a lot of workshops and conferences for wedding photographers in USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, México, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Morocco and Rumania
DIRECTOR´S STATEMENT
We pursue to tell stories about characters and topics that can make the world a better place.
CAST
Erika Lust
Erika Lust is a filmmaker, mother, writer, blogger, founder and owner of Erika Lust Films where she offers an alternative to the mainstream porn industry. She is also the creator of groundbreaking audiovisual project XConfessions.com, the first crowdsourced series that brought adult film to cinema screens.
Paulita Pappel
Paulita Pappel is a Spanish filmmaker and feminist pornographer. After studying comparative literature in Berlin, she worked both in front and behind the camera. She is the founder of Lustery, a platform dedicated to the sex lives of real-life couples from around the world. She also co-organizes and curates the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Paulita works as a producer, performer, director, screenwriter and podcaster, and is an advocate for a sex-positive, consent-based culture.
Lina Bembe
Lina Bembe is a Mexican performer, filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. She sweats in selected alt-porn productions, ranging from feminist amateur to queer post-porn narratives. Lina’s first short film, ’Ritual Waves’ premiered in October 2019. Besides porn, Lina works in front and behind the scenes at Sex School Hub, a platform of explicit sex ed films and often gets invited to write, speak or curate screenings about feminism, culture, sex education and explicit sexuality.
Laura Méritt
Dr. Laura Méritt, author, editor and sexologist activist in the sex-positive feminism movement.
She runs Europe oldest feminist sexshop Sexclusivitäten and the legendary friday salons and is Initiator of PorYes, Feminist Porn Award.
Lucy Huxley
Lucy Huxley is a polyamorous porn performer and creator based in Berlin. She is passionate about sex education, BDSM, and creating art in all forms. She performed for the first time for XConfessions in Dirty Feet with her real life partner and pet at the time, Miro.
She has since performed in a number of XConfessions short films and even showed us her amazing contemporary dance skills in Mud Dance.
Dante Dionys
Dante Dionys is a queer sex worker and performer in Berlin, collaborating with other studios and performers, and increasingly filming their own smut. They prioritise keeping the work process non-hierarchical and fair to everyone involved, so creating films that are engaging and enjoyable from the beginning on for both audience and performer.
Carmina
Carmina entered the industry in 2013 as a journalist for the French magazine "Le Tag Parfait". She started modelling soon after, inspired by the people she met and interviewed to explore porn and camming as a performer herself.
After a while, she started writing her experience in a blog, which motivated her activism, and started speaking about camming and feminism in public panels and conferencesIn 2017 she self-produced and directed her first porn movie, and after the success of this first attempt kept filming. She then decided in 2019 to create her own production "Carré Rose Films". She is now also Editor and Chief of Le Tag Parfait.
AWARDS
Finalist LIFF-SWEDEN january 2021
Official selection BIFF- SWEDEN 2021
Official selection Berlin Flash Film Festival 2021
Official selection SECS FEST 2021
Official selection SEX EDUCATION FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Official selection COURT MAIS TRASS 2022
Official selection EXCÉNTRICO 2022
Official selection ATLANTA WOMEN´S FILM FESTIVAL 2021
CREDITS
Written and directed by: The Raw Angels.
Associated production: Salvador Martínez Más.
Music by: Nameless Arcadia, Daniel Birch, Pol punto R.
Make up artist Lina Bembe golden scene: Guillaume Carpentier
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