CineKink Seeks Submissions for Kinky Film Festival

NEW YORK CITY—CineKink,"the kinky film festival," is seeking works that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality for its 2016 season. Scheduled for its 13th annual appearance in February 2016, the specially-curated CineKink NYC will feature a short film competition, audience choice awards, a special adult entertainment showcase/contest, a gala kick-off event and a sexy closing-night party. A national tour will follow, showcasing favorites from the NYC festival selections. Dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, CineKink is looking to blur boundaries and will be considering offerings drawn from both the mainstream film world and the adult, with works ranging from documentary to drama, camp comedy to artsy experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit—and everything in between. "It's rare to visit a festival where sexually-themed documentary, racy art film, and adult cinema can share a program together," said CineKink alumni filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell, whose work has appeared in several editions of the festival. "As an independent adult cinema director, I enjoy hanging out with filmmakers from other genres and cross-pollinating ideas about sexuality." Cutting across orientations, topics covered at CineKink have included BDSM, leather and fetish, swinging, non-monogamy and polyamory, roleplay and gender bending, sex work and sex geekery. Basically, as long as it involves consenting adults, just about anything celebrating sex as a right of self expression is fair game for festival consideration. Films, videos and original digital series, of any length and genre, are welcome for submission. Discounted, early-bird entries have a postmarked deadline of October 16, while the regular deadline is November 13 and the final deadline is December 4. Entry fees are waived for CineKink-alumni directors submitting by the "regular" deadline. For more information, please click here.