Rated: NR    Runtime: 120 MINS.
SEX WORKER FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, May 25
The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival began screening at the Roxie in 1999, providing a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker film and video makers and to screen works about sex workers and the sex industries from around the world. Films and videos for the Festival focus on sex workers' rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for strippers; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on the international agenda; sex workers as artists; queer sex workers; sex work and gender identities; sex education, sex art, porn and erotica; portraits of strippers, prostitutes, doms, madams and more. Sex workers have an excellent vantage point from which to view social hypocrisy, expressed in many contexts--by the lawmakers who use their services, then sponsor policies which further criminalize them, to the wanna-be saviors who try to 'rescue? them. This whores-eye-view of society is reflected in this body of work by sex workers. The Festival provides an opportunity to recognize and honor prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers, who have historically been a dynamic part of arts communities. Scarlot Harlot and Erica Fabulous are the 2013 Festival producers and Laure McElroy is the curator.

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