PinkLabel.tv is proud to sponsor the 2019 PorYes Awards in Berlin, Germany. The PorYes Awards were founded in 2009 by adult sexuality shop and salon Sexclusivitaten to celebrate adult film directors who exemplified strong feminist values in production and product. Past honored recipients include many PinkLabel.TV featured filmmakers, including Jennifer Lyon Bell (Blue Artichoke Films), Gala Vanting (Sensate Films), Ms. Naughty (Bright Desire), performer Bishop Black, producer/performer Sky Deep (Enactone), and Chanelle Gallant (who originated the Feminist Porn Awards at Canadian sex toy shop Good For Her in 2005), Petra Joy, Annie Sprinkle, Jiz Lee, and PinkLabel.tv’s own creator, Shine Louise Houston of Pink and White Productions.

This year, the nominees are…

Nan Kinney
Nan Kinney produced some of the first porn films by and for women in the late 80s, and was the co-founder of the lesbian sex magazine On Our Backs with Deborah Sundahl and Susie Bright. (Watch Fatale Media on PinkLabel.TV)

Anna Brownfield
In her movie The Band, Anna Brownfield critically addresses the male-dominated music industry while creating female characters who are equally powerful and know exactly how to satisfy their desires. (Watch Anna Brownfield’s Poison Apple Productions on PinkLabel.TV)

Sadie Lune
American-born Berlin-based multimedia artist, sex worker and pleasure activist SADIE LUNE pushes the boundaries of sex-positive, whore-positive performance. (Watch Sadie’s films on PinkLabel.TV)

Loree Erickson
Queer femmegimp porn academic LOREE ERICKSON brings creativity and theory together on issues of sexual self-representation, embodiment and identity. WANT is her sex-positive reflection on sites of shame as resistance for people with disabilities. (Watch Loree’s films on PinkLabel.TV)

Wayne Yung
Berlin-based writer, performer, and video artist Wayne Yung explores issues of race and identity from a queer Chinese-Canadian perspective, bringing his curated screening events to audiences world-wide.

Adina Pintille
TOUCH ME NOT, the feature debut of filmmaker Adina Pintilie, is a film-research about intimacy, questioning our preconceived ideas on how human beings can touch each other in the most unexpected of ways.

Events include a panel on Sex Work and Disability and a talk by Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” author and Professor Emerita Linda Williams!

For more information and to purchase event tickets visit poryes.de and follow along on Facebook or Twitter #PorYes.

Featured pic: Loree Erickson, Courtesy PorYes