competition — Brussels Porn Film Festival

COMPETITION AND AWARDS

Who cums or squirts the farthest, who moans the higher, who could take the biggest... hand. There's many, many questions when we think about porn and competition. But what about a film festival? The idea is not to create a concurrence, but to highlight creations that touch the deepest our psyché and that reflects at the bottom of dripping fluids the spirit of our porny time. To celebrate new ways of thinking pornography and to highlight productions that push the boundaries of what porn can be, or look, or sound like!

Since its first edition, the festival has held an international and national competition, with a jury board composed by 3 professionals from different backgrounds who will each represent an approach to pornographic or film productions. Our goal is to mix perspectives and to create a bridge between "traditional" cinema and the pornographic industry, by fostering interactions and connections between those two poles that rarely touch. With that in mind, our jury board is usually composed of a porn industry's personality, a porn film scholar or programmer, and a Belgian "traditional" cinema professional. Past jury members include names like Vex Ashley, Matt Lambert, Kis Keya, Carmina, Sarah Moon Howe and Nicolas Rios.

The jury delivers the Best International Porn Short, the Best National Porn Short as well as the Special Jury Prize. There's also a place for the public here, who deliver the Public Award to the film that has most captivated the audience.

For the Public Award, at the end of every screening you will be able to vote for your favorite film. The votes will be gathered on a ballot until Sunday, where it will be counted by our team before the closing ceremony.

Our prize is handmade by ceramist artist Simon Aubry Picaudot.

2024's JURY

MARÍA RIOT

Born in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently based in Barcelona, Spain. She is a sex worker, sex worker rights activist, artist, and Adult Industry Intimacy Coordinator. She is a member of AMMAR, the Sex Workers Union in Argentina, and has organized and curated the screening "Whores on Film: Portraits of Sex Workers in First Person" as part of festivals such as Excentrico Festival in Chile and cinema screenings in Spain. She is the author of the photography project "Archivo Puta" and is curently working on various projects related to art and sex work.

ZENO GRATON

Zeno studied cinematography at INSAS (Brussels) and directed his graduation film there, "Mouettes", which won the Bayard d'Or at the FIFF and was awarded at numerous international festivals. His second short film, "Jay parmi les hommes", was nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Short Film and selected at Clermont-Ferrand, anticipating the themes of his future feature film - masculinity, sexuality, tenderness. "Le Paradis", written during his residency at the Cinéfondation and selected for the Berlinale Generation 2023, portrays a love story between two teenagers placed in a juvenile detention center.

Swiss Duo:

Emanuel Signer & Talaya Schmid

Emanuel currently works as a film producer, freelance exhibition curator, and research associate at film archives. Specializing in film and art history, he enjoys immersing himself in subcultural art spaces, rave culture, and film projects. He has been part of the Porny Days festival team for eight years and has co-directed the festival with Talaya Schmid since 2023.

Talaya co-founded Porny Days. She is an independent artist, queer-feminist specializing in textile and performance art in Zurich. Schmid studied at Goldsmiths University of London, teaches at various art schools, and exhibits internationally.

BRUSSELS PORN
FILM FESTIVAL

BRUSSELS PORN
FILM FESTIVAL

COMPETITION AND AWARDS

2024's JURY

MARÍA RIOT

ZENO GRATON

Emanuel Signer & Talaya Schmid

Brussels Porn Film Festival

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