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I’ve just rediscovered this short clip by Gaspar Noe, shot in 2005. It’s beautiful.

We’ve just released the Spanish edition of PORN FOR WOMEN, a book written by me, published by  Melusina and designed by Marion Donneweg. It will be in German, French and English during 2009. There’s more about the book in pornoparamujeres.com (Spanish)

I decided to write the book, amongst other things, because of this

Working in the adult industry, I’m getting less and less innocent about how things actually are. Last year I received the award of “Best Erotic Movie For Women” for my movie Five Hot Stories For Her in the Erotic E-line Awards, and I was really happy, feeling that even the mainstream adult industry liked my movie.

This year we got the award “Best Erotic Documentary” for my second film Barcelona Sex Project, however this time I don’t feel very enthusiastic since I now understand how it all works. You pay and you get the award you want, they even create special categories for films and people who don’t fit into the never ending list of awards they prepare. And the price, well depends if you are a big company you will have to buy a whole table (10 pax) at the award ceremony dinner for the price of 1700 €, and of course some advertising in their Magazine. And if you’re a small company you can get away with the amount of 400 € for your award, the price of two pax for the award ceremony.

The award ceremony is the worst show ever, horrible gas station food and tacky entertainment, mixed with people who look like they came right out of a porn mag from the 90’s. But the funniest thing is the list of awards, it goes on forever and ever and they go to everyone, most categories don’t even have nominations, just “winners”. Best cumshot scene in Germany, best gangbang in the USA, best girl-girl with pink dildos, best new pair of breasts….

I promise that I will never receive an award in this kind of festivals again, basically because I don’t plan to submit our movies ever again!

PS:  hands up to a new young producer in Germany, who told me that he got various calls from the organization saying that he could get himself a nice award if he would buy tickets for the dinner- but he turned them down and went out to an adventurous night in Berlin instead. Cool guy!

And here you have a list of all the “winners”

Ayesha and her group MISNOMA are the authors of the music in our last movie  BARCELONA SEX PROJECT

Misnoma’s style is arabesque latin funk soul.
“A modern Sade sipping cocktails with Thievery Corporation and Aphex Twin in Marrakech” (J. Muggs –The Wire)

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LUST FILMS “FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER” has been awarded with “BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR” yesterday in Toronto. We want to thank GOOD FOR HER and the Feminist Porn Awards for this distinction.

This is what they said about the movie : “Every so often, a film comes along that reinvents what is possible within porn. This year’s winner has taken stock subjects and turned them on their head, making women and their desires the focus of the film, even when including steamy gay male scenes. Showing incredible ingenuity and a keen eye for erotic fantasy, gorgeous sets, and incredible, explosive scenes – this movie is destined to be a classic of Feminist Porn. “

Picture by: TANIA A

We are about to finish a new LUST FILMS production. We will tell you more soon, because now we are very busy with the last days in the studio. It’s a minimalistic documentary, where six people show us their intimacy, including their true personality and their real orgasms. It a project in collaboration with  La Maleta Roja, Late Chocolate and Jailhousefuck. More pictures and trailer coming up in a few days.

At last our movie FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER is available in the Pay Per View Theater of HOT MOVIES FOR HER

Here you can read the five texts that HOT MOVIES FOR HER’s reviewers have written about the movie.

We’ve decided to do something a little different because we are totally in love with Erika Lust’s latest movie, Five Hot Stories For Her. Instead of trying to cram all of our praise into one little review, we’re going to review each scene individually every Monday for the next 5 weeks. Since I won the jello wrestling competition, I get to go first!

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The short movie “Something About Nadia”, one of the five stories contained in “Five Hot Stories For Her” has been awarded with “Honorable Best Mention” in the CineKink NYC Festival 2008.

About cinekink

Founded in 2002, CineKink is an organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality and kink in film and television, most visibly through its annual film festival, CineKink NYC.

Featuring a specially-selected program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, with offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented at CineKink NYC range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn and everything in between.

In addition to screenings, the annual festival also includes a short film competition, audience choice awards, presentations, parties and a gala kick-off fundraiser, all followed by a national screening tour.