Pink and White Productions Teams With Toronto Queer Film Festival

SAN FRANCISCO — Pink and White Productions is partnering with the 2021 Toronto Queer Film Festival to present the one-night only program "Porn is So Boring" to a global audience on its streaming platform PinkLabel.TV at 6 p.m. PST on Saturday, March 27. The 2021 edition of the festival, dubbed “Queer Emergencies,” will be held online on March 25-28. "This is a landmark time for humanity," said festival representatives. "Homebound and with resources dwindling, many of us continue to create art and engage in solidarity practices from within our communities. At Toronto Queer Film Festival, we acknowledge this and have created avenues for our communities to tap into Queer Emergencies! Queer Emergencies celebrates resistance, creativity, and mutual aid work that is ongoing in our community in its response to the intense pressures and transformations wrought by the global pandemic. It seeks to engage work that is vital in this moment, speaking to the unique challenges that precarious and marginalized queer and trans communities are facing today." The "Porn is So Boring,” film program, which discusses what role pleasure, sensuality, and desire play in times of crisis, contains 11 films from Canada, USA, Germany, India, Spain and Brazil. Six films in the curation were created as part of a BIPOC erotic filmmaking video workshop held by TQFF during the summer of 2020. Those films are: Paani, Moxa Willngan Tastes Really Good, Cannibal, Lonely in Quarantine, What You Didn’t Steal From Me, and Shark Skin Fine. The festival is a not-for-profit event that showcases contemporary, innovative, queer and trans film and video art with a goal to create space for queer and trans filmmakers and audiences to come together in the spirit of art and activism. The virtual event is free to members of PinkLabel+ or with an event pass purchased through the Toronto Queer Film Festival. The festival’s official selections are: ■ Bodies of Desire (Varsha Panikar & Saad Nawab, 2020, India). Using Varsha Panikar’s poetry series by the same name, as the point of departure, “Bodies of Desire” is a visual poetry film that captures four sets of lovers amid who passionately create a portrait of tender intimacy and profound companionship.■ Paani (Priya “Pree” Rehal, 2020, Canada). Paani (“water” in Punjabi) is a short confessional film about the filmmaker’s complicated relationship with their disabled, brown, queer and trans body. It is the filmmakers’ second short film.■ Moxa Willngan Tastes Really Good (Vanessa Dion Fletcher, 2020, Canada). A summer afternoon is filled with kaleidoscopic strawberries, deep breaths, and soft moans. There are no words in this video, just are subtle sounds of rain and a dishwasher.■ Cannibal (Augusto Bitter, 2020, Canada). A proverbial short love letter to food, land, water, sex, a hot summer and brown skin. Inspired by Gloria E. Anzaldúa's poem "The Cannibal's Canción."■ Lonely in Quarantine (Beeta, 2020, Canada). In the solitary setting of her bedroom, a woman muses on touch and kink during quarantine times, where she explores her experience of pandemic-induced isolation in a conversation with the viewer.■ What You Didn’t Steal From Me (Kitty Rode, 2020, Canada). The film is a snapshot of the director’s struggle with self-acceptance. Through rope bondage, the characters rediscover their sexuality after trauma and finding a home in their fat, disabled and brown body.■ Shark Skin Fine (Dev Ramsawakh, 2020, Canada). The film is an experimental, erotic self-portrait that explores the artist's relationship to trauma and intimacy through an analogy of an under-appreciated trait of a shark.■ DIYSEX (Do It Your Sex) (Maria Lorente, Juno Álvarez, Yaiza de Lamo, Mariona Vázquez, 2019, Spain). The film is a challenging yet spellbinding exploration of the seductive landscape of pornography.■ Mountain Lodge (Jordan Wong, 2020, USA). The film follows the candle, the myth, the legend of Mountain Lodge.■ Submerge (Ena Lind, 2020, Germany). Outside it was a hot summer afternoon. Inside the factory, the two lovers were washed in cool blue light. One asks the questions, sharp but always with deep connection; the other answers when she can. Submerge is one of the million chapters of a queer BDSM love story.■ Bestiary (Benedito Ferreira, 2020, Brazil). The film offers the ultimate performance of adorned booty shaking. For more information, please visit torontoqueerfilmfest.com.