Birds Eye Review: Sex on Screen Debate
Followed by high class erotic shorts
ICA Cinema 1 Wed 11 Mar 9-11pm (Cert 18)
There is no shortage of sex in cinema, but how is it affected by the gender imbalance in the industry? Join leading filmmakers and commentators to debate the significance of a female perspective of sex in film.
Panel discussion featuring director Carine Adler (Under the Skin), award-winning porn director Petra Joy, former Erotic Review editor Rowan Pelling, Coco de Mer entrepreneur Sam Roddick and Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code).
Followed by a screening of high-class erotic shorts.
To kick-start the discussion in preparation for the debate and give you a chance to offer your own comment, Festival Director Rachel Millward interviewed Petra Joy about her perspective on porn for the BEV blog.
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FURTHER INFO ON THE PANELISTS...
Mike Figgis
Mike Figgis is one of Britain's most truly innovative and diverse film directors. His work includes Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode and Hotel. He is an Oscar-nominated writer, producer, and director for both film and television. Mike is also one of our Birds Eye View Patrons!
Petra Joy
Petra Joy is an award-winning erotic filmmaker. Petra pioneered a new genre that she calls “art-core”: explicit erotic films that are produced independently and with high production values. In 2006 she published a book with Harper Collins: "How to make your own adult video" and now regularly teaches workshops on creative erotic filmmaking all over Europe. Petra is in the process of releasing a compilation of erotic films directed by female directors from all over the world.
Rowan Pelling
Rowan Pelling is a writer and broadcaster. She was brought up in a pub, went to a school for daughters of missionaries, worked as an elf at Hamley's Christmas Grotto and as Ian Hislop's PA at Private Eye, before being drafted in to the Erotic Review magazine, Britain's only literary sex journal, which she edited for eight years. She was a columnist for the Independent on Sunday for almost a decade, but now writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
