The film industry loves sex workers.
Flooded with representations of sex workers as either (1) Vunerable, fallen angels, without agency or power, controlled by dangerous criminals or (2) Shallow, materialistic, manipulative and without ethics. Callous and ‘used up’. Thats if we are even alive to begin with - much of the time it doesn’t get past the dead hooker, killed violently by pimps, drug dealers or crazed punters.
We want more: We want to see living, fighting, whole sex workers; representations abandoning flat one dimensional characters and stereotypes. We want complex portrayals of sex work - ones that take into account diversity of experience, gender, sexualities, class and racism.
We want film and stories from actual sex workers and ethically produced documentaries.
And as much as they want us as subject, it’s clear corporate media and the film industry isn’t going to deliver on this any time soon.
Thats why we decided to take the matter into our own hands, and proudly present:
The First Ever London Sex Worker Film Festival
Featuring discussion, documentaries and films from across the UK and internationally.
Programme Sex worker Film festival 2011
Sunday 12th of June at RIO Cinema, Hackney
From 1.15 til 5.30 pm
Tickets are £9 /£7 concessions,
all funds raised to cover expenses of Sex worker Open University 2011 !
http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/
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