Out of the approximately 15 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.
Emre Busse, Berlin
Emre Busse lives and works in Berlin. His film and research practices are based on the philosophy of contemporary sexualities and trans-cultural pornography studies. He completed his M.A. at the Fine Arts Faculty of Bauhaus University, Weimar, in 2015. In March 2017, he co-curated the exhibition called “soft ğ -queer forms migrate” at Schwules Museum* Berlin. He has also worked as a filmmaker and artistic advisor of Pornceptual in Berlin, whose conceptual framework is informed by sex-positive interventions into Berlin’s queer nightlife. His recent work, the Godasses Trilogy, has screened at international film festivals, including San Francisco Porn Film Festival, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival London, Post-Porn Film Festival Warsaw. He is a member of the Masculinity, Sex, and Popular Culture Network, a research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) located in the United Kingdom. Currently, Emre Busse is finishing his Ph.D. on gay ethnic pornography in post-colonial Europe at the Freie University Berlin, for which he was awarded a doctoral fellowship from Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.
Renata Ferraz, Lisbon
Renata Ferraz is a Portuguese-Brazilian director, cinema scholar, artist among others. After working two decades as a theater actor, she allowed herself to be seduced by multimedia art, cinema and queer studies. Moving between worlds, today her activity is centered in researching on shared film creation at Labcom (UBI) and creating films with non-binary people, cis and trans women. While she develops the script for her next film, she follows the trajectory of her first feature film, “Rua dos Anjos (Rising Sun Blues)” (Award Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival; Youth Jury Nominee, Sheffield DocFest)
Nicola Rios, Barcelona
Nicola Rios (he/him) is an independent curator, film programmer, gender scholar and promiscuous researcher from Chile. Over the last 10 years, he has worked as an advocate for critical sex education and erotic justice for several institutions and organizations. From 2011 to 2015 he was the curator of the postporn section for the Cine//B Independent Film Festival. He is the founder and head programmer of Excéntrico, an annual event around critical pornographies that takes place in Valparaíso and Santiago de Chile since 2019. As guest curator, he has supported international events such as “Ciclo Hasta las Tetas” (Barcelona/Buenos Aires), “Festival internacional de Artes Eróticas” (Bogotá/Medellín), “Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival” and the “Post Pxrn Film Festival Warsaw”. Currently he leads a PhD research project around the pedagogical uses of pornography in Chilean schools at the University of Barcelona.
