A Review of the New York ‘Pay As You Go: Sex Worker Shorts’ Film Fest
by Heidi Hoefinger*
On a rainy Saturday night in Brooklyn (October 24, 2009), sex workers, allies, activists, academics and media makers got together for a New York sex worker film festival titled ‘Pay As You Go: Sex Worker Shorts.’ Hosted by Union Docs—a public space for non-fiction projects—and curated by activists and media makers, Audacia Ray [...]
UK Premiere screening of “Understanding Trafficking”
plus Q&A with the director Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti
Monday 16th November, 2009 Goldsmiths Cinema
(Richard Hoggart Building, New Cross, SE14)
::part of Cinema Typhoon::
Legend goes, there is a magical line that Laxman drew around Sita, which no woman is supposed to cross.
If any woman dared to cross the magical line, she would risk being kidnapped by Ravan the [...]
Love for Sale?
Working Girls (Director: Lizzie Borden, 1987) - not to be confused with the singular and singularly awful Mike Nichols movie that features Melanie Griffith vacuuming a carpet, nakedly - is an easily underestimated accomplishment, and despite the rampant nudity and unblinking depictions of adult sexuality, a guaranteed sex-deterrent. It’s hilarious, embarassing, grim, deeply disturbing, cynical, touching, [...]