The Jury
Petra Joy, Brighton
Petra is a pioneering female film-maker shooting porn from a female perspective. Her focus is on female pleasure and she enjoys showing men as objects of desire. Petra only works with amateurs who are feeling it and not faking it. Petra’s innovative way to show sex and her unique artistic style have made here an internationally celebrated artist. Her films have won many international awards and Petra has been honoured with the Venus award for “pioneering achievements in adult films from women”. Petra published the book “Make your own adult video” with Harper Collins and runs workshops on porn for women all over Europe. She is curating erotic films by female film-makers for her compilations series “HER PORN” and created the PETRA JOY AWARD. Petra Says: “Two men kissing and pleasuring each other is erotic to me!”
www.petrajoy.com
Maria Beatty, Paris
Maria is an award-winning, independent erotic film producer. Her movies reveal fetish fantasies of bondage, spanking, sensual teasing and the most intimate acts of submission. Beatty's artistry as a film-maker sets new standards of quality in erotic film-making. The artistic quality of her films is a dramatic contrast to the sometimes shocking sexual images she reveals. Maria created a new genre: porn noir – stunning fetish films in black and white reminiscent of the ‘film noir’ of the fifties. Maria has shot and produced over 30 erotic films to date and has just released her first cinema feature “Bandaged”. Maria says: “Erotic is the power of the imagination - it’s a subliminal seduction...”
www.bleuproductions.com
Nicole Ruediger, Cologne
Nicole is one of the editors and publishers of the “Jungsheft” – a unique magazine for women that features pin-up shots of men some of them with erections and masturbating. The images show “the guy next door” rather than the cloned alpha males that we see in perfume adverts. The magazine also features articles on topics that are taboo in the women’s glossies such as “female ejaculation”. The underground magazine has become a cult publication in Germany. Nicole and he co-editor Elke have resisted all tempting offers to sell out to the mainstream and continue their ground-breaking work by now publishing the “Giddyheft”, an erotic magazine featuring natural women. Nicole says: “The most erotic thing to me are wet eyelashes!”
www.jungsheft.de