Erika Lust
Erika Lust, the visionary filmmaker and advocate for ethical adult cinema founded her company ERIKALUST in 2004, a global sex-positive adult entertainment lifestyle and tech company, grown from a desire to transform the adult film industry within, despite prejudice and bias entrepreneures in this sector face. Today it has grown into a success with over 50 employees at its Barcelona HQ and has produced several movies, including THE WEDDING, which won the X-Biz awards in 2023. Erika Lust is now celebrating 20 years in the industry, having directed a total of 417 movies, including 300 short films, 26 series and 21 feature films.
Annapurna Sriram
Annapurna Sriram grew up in Nashville Tennessee and a lot of her early artistic influences were informed by the unchaperoned movie rentals she found at the local public library. Annapurna received a BFA in Acting from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts. Annapurna spent many years working in New York both on stage and in television and film. Her most cherished previous work includes Jesse Eisenberg’s The Spoils, Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talkhouse, the television shows I Think You Should Leave and Billions and the feature film Feral. Fucktoys premiered at SXSW and won Special Jury.
Noelle Perdue
Noelle Perdue is a writer, producer, and Internet porn historian with nearly ten years of experience working platform-side for multiple mainstream and independent adult industry companies. Having written everything from Food Network porn parodies to legally binding terms and conditions, much of her current work explores the blurry borders of obscenity and how pornography’s history can influence our digital and political futures. Her writing work has been published on Wired, Washington Post, them, Slate, Input, and more. She’s been featured as an industry expert on BBC, CBC, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, on Netflix’s 2023 documentary Money Shot, and has spoken at multiple universities and conferences globally.
