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Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino
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October 5th 2012: Mexico City Feminist Porn Festival with Jennifer Lyon Bell, Marit Ostberg, Ingrid Ryberg, Liandra Dahl, Abraham Castillo, and Candida Royalle
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Tristan hosts an unprecedented conversation between
feminist pornographers from around the world, including Jennifer Lyon Bell
(Amsterdam), Marit Ostberg (Germany), Ingrid Ryberg (Sweden), Liandra Dahl
(Australia), and film festival programmer Abraham Castillo, with a special
appearance by Candida Royalle (U.S.).
This episode was recorded live at the Cine y Sexo: La Mirada Femenina film
festival in Mexico City. The group talks about this groundbreaking event,
which was the first of its kind in Latin America, and audience reactions to
their films. They discuss the importance of sexual r
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Jennifer Lyon Bell
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Jennifer Lyon Bell is a Harvard-educated American erotic film
director and curator living in Amsterdam. For her independent production
company Blue Artichoke Films, she writes and directs award-winning explicit
erotic films combining authentic sex and arthouse values. They have screened
all over the world at international festivals and cinemas in America,
Europe, and Japan. In addition, she curates erotic-themed film programs and
exhibitions for museums, arts institutions, and festivals including The
Museum of Sex in New York, Ladyfest, Women Inc., and the San Francisco Indie
Erotic Film Festival, and was a co-director of the Amsterdam Alternative
Erotica Film Festival. She also giv
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Abraham Castillo
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Abraham Castillo graduated as a filmmaker from SVA where he
received the Dusty Award and the Directors Guild of America award for Best
Latin Student Filmmaker in 1998. Director, Editor and programmer he is now
lives in Mexico City and dedicates his time to editing films, teaching and
as Programer of MORBIDO International Film Festival of Horror, Fantasy &
Science Fiction Films. In 2012 he collaborated with Marianna Palerm, founder
and director of LA MIRADA FEMENINA, Mexico's first film festival dedicated
to the promotion, study and discussion of porn films directed by women. He
is convinced that working and watching films on extreme sides of the
spectrum (Eros & Thanatos) keeps him
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Liandra Dahl
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Liandra Dahl: I'm British born but I have lived in Melbourne,
Australia since 2002. I first made amateur porn in 2004. I was the hostess
for ifeelmyself.com, I also appeared on ishotmyself.com and
beautifulagony.com primarily for the money KACHING! I was supporting myself
through a Bachelor of Arts degree but also to have a hedonistic adventure.
As a committed voyeur I love to watch and as a confirmed exhibitionist I
also love to show, thus producer/performer was the obvious next step. On
25th December 2010 I started my own adult website LiandraDahl.com. I’m queer
and I’m attracted to masculine, feminine and androgynous people. I wanted to
present my own desires in a more pluralist
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Marit Östberg
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Marit Östberg is from Stockholm, Sweden, currently living in
Berlin. Since making her debut as a porn-film director in the acclaimed porn
compilation Dirty Diaries, Marit Östberg has continued to produce porn. She
has become a part of the queer feminist porn scene that has evolved in
Europe in recent years, directing and acting in work that pushes ideas of
who and what porn might be for. Her films have been shown and discussed at
various festivals around the world.
Östberg has a background as queer feminist activist and journalist, and
she´s been an important voice discussing and writing about sexual politics
in swedish media the last decade. She sees porn as a creative way of worki
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Candida Royalle
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Candida Royalle, president of Femme Productions®, is a frequent
TV & radio guest and sought after expert on issues of relationships,
sexuality and women’s self-empowerment. She is the author of “How to Tell a
Naked Man What to Do: Sex Advice From a Woman who Knows”
(Simon&Schuster). Royalle first became known for pioneering the genre of
erotic movies by and for women and couples. Widely used by counselors and
sexologists, her work has received international accolades for its
sex-positive and egalitarian approach to sexuality and eroticism. Royalle
has lectured at such venues as the Smithsonian Institute, the American
Psychiatric Association's national conference, and the World Congr
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Ingrid Ryberg
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Ingrid Ryberg is defending her doctoral dissertation, Imagining
Safe Space: The Politics and Ethics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian
Pornography, in February 2012 at the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm
University, Sweden. She has published articles in academic journals such as
Film International, Montage AV and Frauen und Film and regularly writes for
the Swedish movie magazine FLM. She also has a background as a cultural
journalist, TV-reporter and filmmaker. She is the director of the drag king
documentary Dragkingdom of Sweden (2002), the educational film Var fick du
luft ifrån? En utbildningsfilm om härskartekniker (2005) and the lesbian
short Phone Fuck (2009), made for t
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