Josie and I continue our new tradition!

When Josie joins me in Europe and we finish shooting our films, it’s off for a little cultural and historical packed holiday that culminates with us attending an opera. Prague being our destination on this occasion.

We didn’t get off to a good start as my wallet was stolen from my hand bag as Josie and I jostled to board the Prague bound train.  It was later recovered and returned to me with all of the cash missing but thankfully the debit cards left in place.

We managed to get an upgrade and a complimentary bottle of wine on our second night as the hotel we had booked overlooked our request for twin beds and we had a technician trying to connect the internet for most of our first evening.

Josie was over the moon that we have TWO toilets in our Executive Room and a 24hour Gym & Sauna available.

We had the best view overlooking the city when we took a tour and climbed to the top of the Astronomical Clock Tower.

Another highlight for us was taking a tour not too far outside of Prague to visit the Bone Church at Kutná Hora. I was left worried and hoping just for a little while, that Josie was going to return for me, after she had asked me to take a seat inside the Church and wait for her.

No holiday would be complete for us, if we didn’t include a visit to an old cemetery,  so we went and had a visit to the Old Jewish Cemetery.

It’s a pity that I’m not a real beer drinker but the opportunity to have a beer spa (with unlimited beer on tap to drink) was just too much of  a ridiculous and novel opportunity to miss.

We ‘dolled’ ourselves up for a night at the opera to watch ‘Salome’ at the Prague State Opera and of course talking the obligatory selfies in the process.

Prague, you are a truly beautiful and magical city, we had a great time.

 

 

That’s it for Josie and me!

Well, in terms of shooting our new films to be released in 2016, that is!

‘The Kissing Whip’ brings together two professional dancers that are also involved in the Kink/BDSM. The result is a mesmerising combination of dance and flogging.

‘Rituals And Worship’ is a documentary based on the workshop of the same name that is facilitated by my beautiful friend Caritia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Berlin Porn film festival is like nothing you have seen before.

It is thousands of porn loving, sexuality exploring, happiness promoting, curiosity provoking people drawn together to one little cinema to celebrate human sexuality captured on screen. It is a very necessary festival. It offers film makers who create art that includes pornographic content a space to screen their work. It allows us to celebrate with others who are like minded in thinking that we must return sex to the screen in all its varied and realistic glory and see all the incredible ways people from around the world are choosing to frame sex.

This year Permission 4 Pleasure had two films screening. We will do a separate post about that experience.

This is a review of some of the amazing films we saw. Political, artistic and fucking good sex.

Context for these reviews: Going into the festival I didn’t really have an idea about what the films could and would be like. I assumed it was going to be not porn like on the internet. But other than assuming the content would be more interesting than an hour long clips 4 sale video I wasn’t really sure what I would see.

 

Without further ado, here are some of our reviews from the Berlin porn film festival

NOVA DUBAI – Gustavo Vinagre 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nova Dubai was a film that lingered on my mind long after I finished watching it. It was a beautifully staged and performed piece about friends who need to disrupt the construction that is happening in their neighbourhood, ruining childhood memories. Something about the slow trickle of interesting snippets from memories about each character through their own anecdotes made for a perplexing mix of sweetness and sombre reality.

Schnick – Schnack Schnuck –  MAIKE BROCHHAUS and SÖREN DISORDER

 

 

 

 

We are just so pleased porn like this exists! They describe it as “A lovable pornographic comedy, playfully posing questions on the subject relationship, love, sex and jealousy in addition to its explicit sex scenes” which perfectly nails this film. It is enjoyable to watch the four leads go about, finding themselves. Beautifully shot, nicely stylized (colour pallet to font to costume all a-game!) this is the type of narrative film that doesn’t force gratuitous sex into scenes that are otherwise not sexual, this film does sex justice. It tells narratives about sex, with sex that should be told, explored and elaborated upon. For the sake of the children!

 

The Papillion –  Julie Simone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This film was so simple and so beautiful. The nature imagery juxtaposed with a woman having her shaved and then cocooned was so striking! I can’t say much else about it but that it was sublimely intoxicating, even though it was a distressing act to watch.

 

House Boy – Pandora Blake

 

 

 

 

 

I found the politics and story behind the creation of this project particularly interesting. I have always thought (and cinemas history tells us) that through limitation and censorship some of the best creative work arounds have been forced. House Boy, a film made in the wake of the recent UK Laws(read amazing summary/ thoughts on Pandoras blog)  is a lovely little tale of a mistress dealing with introducing a new house boy to her fold.

 

Custom Queer Comandos – Jacqueline Mary

 

 

 

 

 

Has one amazing squirty cum shot all over a pastel pink guitar! Do you need another reason to watch a film?

 

The Mask – Minus is Valido

 

 

 

 

 

This picture doesn’t do the colour of this film justice. A political porn from Barcelona about a ghost running through the streets turning regular citizens into perverts. All the scenes are public space scenes with reactions from by standers that are amazing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Berlin porn film festival is one of those festival experiences that leaves you feeling excited for the future. It was so amazing to see the porn community making so many inventive, beautiful and engaging films.

 

— Josie and Mog

It’s a wrap! Our first shoot in Berlin is done!

Attending my second Pornfilmfestival Berlin was extra special for many reasons.

This year the Pornfilmfestival Berlin celebrated its 10th ‘Anniversary. I was excited to have been invited to be one of the Feature Film Competiton Jury. We had two films included in the program, ‘It’s My Birthday And I’ll Fly If I Want To’ and the world premiere of ‘Having My Cake’. It was wonderful to have Josie join me to represent and network for Team P4P. I attended as a ‘Berliner’. Last but not least, five days of great smut viewing, awesome people to hang out with and way too many parties for this ‘old lady’ to keep up with.

It was wonderful seeing Josie experiencing first hand, what being a member of the ‘Pornfilmfestival Family’ is really like, and why I consider them to be my chosen family. So much porn, so many new connections, as well as reuniting with ‘old friends’….so many exciting collaborations in discussion and to look forward to!

Congratulations, and a huge thankyou to all involved in putting on this incredible, sold out festival.

Congratulations to all the deserving winners.

Special thank you to Tabea Lehrner, extraordinary Berlin fashion designer, for making me feel glamorous in her exquisite designs.

Taking it easy and rather casually for the next few days as we prepare to start shooting more Permission4Pleasure films.

 

 

What a fabulous day today was!

Firstly talking sex positive porn with Jürgen Brüning  (Pornfilmfestival Berlin) on FluxFM radio.

Then it was off to Tegel Airport to pick up Josie from her long haul flight from Melbourne. The Permission4Pleasure Team reuniting to attend the Pornfilmfestival that starts this Wednesday and of course to shoot more films for us.  It was VIP treatment for Josie, being picked from the airport by Cora Schönherr, a member of the Pornfilmfestival welcoming committee.

Welcome Josie!  To Berlin and your ‘Berlin Family’.

 

The first time we met in November 2013 I knew that you were ‘the one’!  I decided to take the next step and arranged for us to meet at Ausländerbehörde very early this morning, 7:30am in fact. I gave you my Self Employed Artist Visa Proposal, asking for you to give me 2 years to prove my love for you. Nervously, I waited for your answer…and you said YES…but you insisted that we wait 3 years before we decide where we should go from here!

Mind you Berlin, you certainly played very, very hard to get, with all the paperwork involved for you to say yes! But I’m so excited to be able to call Berlin home for the next three years.

Soooo, we’re so excited to announce that Permission4Pleasure is now included with some of the best Award-Winning, Fair-Trade Studios, and our films will be available on PinkLabel.tv.

“Porn with Good Taste! Pink & White’s Fair-trade video on demand for indie adult filmmakers. Created by Shine Louise Houston.”

Only if you’ve lived in Australia your entire life, will you appreciate the awesomeness and novelty that I felt, when I woke up in Berlin and said to a friend “Oh, I’m just off to a meeting in Barcelona!”

I was one of 4 female film makers invited to meet with Sandra Torres from Thagson (Spains largest producer and distributer of Porn) to discuss a proposal to work on a feature film they were wanting to produce.

I felt desperately in need of a siesta after the magnificent white wine and seafood lunch. My cabin bag is filled with a swag of dvd’s, courtesy from Thagson.

I’m excited and looking forward to seeing what eventuates from this meeting.

 

What an amazing experience!

I was called in at the last minute to replace a German actor, that had pulled out just before shooting was to start, to perform in a The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) student film…’Extage X’. The student and director Francy Fabritz had a crew of 20 and we were all exhausted after the challenging four x 12-14 hours days of shooting. It was a joy to co-perform with the gorgeous and professional Eva Medusa.

Eva Medusa and I were treated like ‘stars’, with our own personal drivers, assistants and the daily catering was just spectacular.