Out of the approximately 30 feature films in the festival a selection is competing for the award for best feature, chosen by an international jury of three people. The award is endowed with a €500 cash price, donated by Erotic Lounge.
Marianne Chargois, Bordeaux
Marianne Chargois is a performer, activist sex worker, director and queer festival organizer. Co-director of Explicit and WHAT THE FUCK? FEST festivals (France, with Matthieu Hocquemiller and floZif respectively), she creates in 2018 SNAP !, the first festival in Europe dedicated to sex workers‘ representations and speeches. She advocates for sex workers‘ rights through her involvement in unionization, at the European level with ICRSE and by developing political art forms.
Madita Oeming, Göttingen
Madita Oeming is a porn scholar. With a lot of passion. She teaches porn classes at university, is writing a PhD on anxieties around pornography, and has given many talks across Germany and abroad, especially on feminist porn. Madita is very active on twitter, writes for VICE, and is increasingly visible in the media. Her aim is to change the public image of porn!
Nikolas Schuppe, Nürnberg
A passionate film lover from birth. At school the discovery of Midnight Movies expanded his cinephile horizon. During his studies he began working at the KommKino Nürnberg – first as a projectionist, then as a program and festival curator. Nikolas is also active in the German cinephile scene and he often appears as a guest or behind the scenes at events and in the world of film distribution. In addition to a colorful genre cinema mix, he’s devoted himself above all to underground and experimental cinema, with a special focus on subversive and somatic cinema. Together with Jochen Werner, he founded the film club STUC – Der stählerne Filmclub in 2015, which has been curating the annual summer festival “Wochenende des stählernen Films” ever since.
