Last
Minute MiniFest
A collection of video debuts & great shorts by whores and
friends
Reception- filmakers in person, featuring PJ Starr, Dee Dee Russell &
Meg Smaker
Admission $5- $20 (NOTAFLOF)
Info: 415-671-6117
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2011/minifest.html
Last Minute MiniFest after Mariko Passion's preview performance, 8 PM,
Modern Day Asian Sex Slavery: The Musical.
Free Admission to Last Minute
Mini Fest for Modern Day Slavery preview attendees. http://www.moderndayasiansexslaverythemusical.com/
Advance Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176444
Last
Minute Mini Fest: A collection
of video debuts
& great shorts by whores and friends
What
I Love About Being A Sex Worker
by Serpent Libertine /redlightdistrictchicago.com
Sex Workers tell us what they love most about their work! (5:47 min-
2010)
Torn
by PJ Starr
Times are hard in Sexxxy’s town, the cops harassing, the stroll
not paying and a new law is being drafted that will ruin things for everyone.
With a little help from her friends she finds stability and success on
boom-boom-room.com until an unexpected betrayal challenges her comfortable
new existence. A political education puts her in the driver’s seat
but she cannot help but be torn by the decision she has to make. (56
min. - 2011)
The
Cowboy by Margie Schnibbe
Margie reminisces about a regular client from her past profession as
a dominatrix in an S/M Housewith the help of some retro doms from the
Prelinger archives. (6:43 min.-2010)
Sex,
Drugs, & Student Loans
Producer, Director, Editor, & Cinematographer & Animation:
Meg Smaker
Chronicles the lives of three women in university and their struggles
with the rising cost of higher education. Insightful, sexy, and honest..."selling
yourself" is finally redefined!
Walk through the Ivy league gates and into a
world of debt and financial despair.
Welcome to higher education in the year 2011.
Welcome to a world of escorts, prostitutes, and drug dealers.
Welcome to the world of Sex, Drugs, & Student Loans"
(15 min.- 2011)
My
Friend Scarlot Harlot a psychodrama documentary by Dee Dee Russell
My Friend Scarlot Harlot is a short dramatic film about the decades long
friendship & collaboration between San Francisco based artists Carol
Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot and Dee Dee Russell of Dee Dee TV fame. African
American Russell is an avid supporter of Scarlot’s Sex Worker Rights
crusade but she has never been a sex worker while self proclaimed “Jewish
American Prostitute” Scarlot created the San Francisco Sex Worker
Film AND coined the term SEX WORK. Using three decades of video &
film footage from their award winning and underground collaborations
plus posters articles & memorabilia this is a touching funny and
sexy historical San Francisco document with interviews, nudity, song
and dance, demonstrating the positive effects of multi-racial sisterhood.
(14 min.- 2011)
FOOTAGE
FROM THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES:
A sex worker activist love story
Producer/Director
Mariko Passion;Ass’t Director JGS
Footage from the days of the life of sex worker activist Mariko Passion,
“educacted whore and urban geisha” as she documents her life’s
obstacles from the month of May 2009. This chapter reveals the POV perspective
of herself and ex-boyfriend turned driver/documentarian. This film reveals
some of the complications that a sex worker relationship might encounter
in a typical year. Preventing violence, STDs and criminalization while
making a decent living can be hard work, even for the of strongest whore
revolutionaries. Mariko Passion is an artist, activist and performer
and lives and works in Los Angeles, Ca. (10:33 min -2009)
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Before the mini fest, watch the preview performance of this play,
and
receive free admission to the Last Minute Mini Fest
Modern
Day Asian Sex Slavery: The Musical by Mariko Passion
presented in conjunction with the San Francisco
Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
May 24th (with Last Minute MiniFest); May 25-May 28th
1349 Mission St. , San Francisco, CA 94103 sexworkerfest@gmail.com
Website: http://www.moderndayasiansexslaverythemusical.com
Cost: May 24th $10-$50; May 25-28th $15-50
Telephone: (415 ) 671-6117
Advance Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176444
Mariko
Passion, self identified whore revolutionary tackles themes of colonialism,
racism, imperialisim, hegemony, misogyny, "modern day slavery"
and other trafficking rhetoric in her full length, one-woman show. Ms.
Passion is a seasoned one off and street performance artist, filmmaker
and vocalist that has traveled across the U.S and internationally speaking
and singing about her own "whore revolution'ary" sex worker
rights politics in places as far as Taiwan and as local as the Venice
Beach.
This
piece focuses on the plight of the Asian sex worker through a historical
pop culture snapshot of clips from Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now,
Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song and Me So Horny! A response to the media
portrayal of all Asian sex workers as victims of pimps and traffickers,
juxtaposed against the true victimization of racism, marginalization
and ignorance around the real lives of sex workers of Asian descent in
the U.S and in Asia.
The
show uses popular music, humor and titillating visuals that will lend
a backdrop to her words which aim to entertain, educate and stimulate!
Happy Ending no extra charge!
