CINEKINK NYC enters its twelfth annual “Kinky Film Festival” March 1st through 6th, bringing with it a specially-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality. In addition to screenings, the festival includes a short film competition, presentations, audience choice awards, and a concluding afterglow party. Cinekink is dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, works presented at CineKink NYC will range from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

We’re proud to host several the winners of previous Cinekink Awards, including Amber by Gala Vanting (Sensate Films), de-railed by Creamy Coconut, Dear Jiz by Ms. Naughty (Bright Desire), Live Sex Show by TroubleFILMS, and Matinee by Jennifer Lyon Bell (Blue Artichoke Films).

2016 CINEKINK NYC Line Up

Tuesday, March 1 @ 8:00 pm / Kick-Off Gala
Dear Delicious
Double Agent
Lust Life
Swan Berths
Warm, Bloody, and Tender

CINEKINK SCREENINGS – WEDNESDAY, 3/2 – SATURDAY, 3/5
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (@ 2nd Street), NYC

Wednesday, March 2 @ 7:00 pm / S&M Sally
w/Technical Difficulties of Intimacy

Wednesday, March 2 @ 9:15 pm / The Pleasure of Rope

Thursday, March 3 @ 7:00 pm / Mix & Mingle
Blown
Dad in Mum
Hand Jobs
Last Call
Pachisi
Pepper
Sonata
The Line
The Panty Symphonic
THR3E
Wild Lovers: Jiz + Valentine

Thursday, March 3 @ 9:15 pm / Kim w/Dyspnea

Friday, March 4 / The Red Umbrella Diaries w/Our Place in the Sky

Friday, March 4 @ 9:30 pm / Coming Out Like a Porn Star

Saturday, March 5 @ 1:00 pm / Scarlet Women
Clitorissima
Everybody Does It
Feminist Porn Filmmakers
Forbidden Fruit
I am a Tourist I Would Like to See Him Naked
Please May I Come, Mistress?
Scarlet Woman
The Rose Garden

Saturday, March 5 @ 3:00 pm / Bring It!
Cream
Enchantress Sahrye Interrogated
Femmephilia
Fucking Mystic
Genderfuck
Houseboy
I Am Whole
The Waltz

Saturday, March 5 @ 5:30 pm / Sector King Zulu King
w/Gone

Saturday, March 5 @ 7:30 pm / Rites & Roles (kinky shorts!)
An Appointment with My Master
Couch Surfing
Dirty Signing
Flux
Locked
Melody (Lost)
Pig At The Ocean
Push Me
Rites

Saturday, February 28 @ 9:30 pm / Schnick Schnack Schnuck
Sunday, March 6 @ 7:00 pm / Awards Celebration

Sunday, March 6 @ 9:00 pm /AfterGlow!!
Featured entertainment:
Xen: The Movie
Heartbreak v. Obscura

CONGRATS to CINEKINK 2016 Winners!

CineKink Best Documentary Short:

FEMINIST PORN FILMMAKERS
Explores the definitions of feminist porn, issues around genderqueer visibility, sex education, internet piracy and censorship. (Directed by Lora Hristova, 2015, United Kingdom, 28 minutes. Shot on location at the Berlin Pornfilm Festival, interviews include CineKink alumni filmmakers Jiz Lee, Shine Louise Houston, Petra Joy, Ms Naughty, Pandora Blake, Maria Bala, Lucie Blush and Alyx Fox, along with Audrey Fox and Yvette Luhrs.)

CineKink Best Narrative Short:
AN APPOINTMENT WITH MY MASTER
The fantasy: “I would love to find the Master of my dreams. I would set an appointment with him, I don’t know, once a month. Just like you do with a psychologist or a dentist or a hairdresser.” (Directed by Erika Lust, 2015, Spain, 15 minutes. Stars Amarna Millar and Mickey Mod.)

CineKink Best Comedy Short:
DAD IN MUM
The middle of the night. Moans are heard behind the parents’ door. Two young sisters are asking questions… (Directed by Fabrice Bracq, 2015, France, 6 minutes.)

CineKink Best Dramatic Short:

PEPPER
It’s a painful awakening after an evening of fantasies explored. (Directed by Patrick Aubert, 2015, Canada, 7 minutes. Stars Chantal Bellavance, Frédérique Proulx and Eloïse Tanguay Simard.)

CineKink Best Experimental Short:
LOCKED
One man spends his days in a chastity cage, locked away yet teased, loved and tormented, waiting for his release. Will it ever come? (Directed by René de Sans and Mamana, 2015, Germany, 4 minutes.)

CineKink Best Musical Short:

RITES
A young man is lured to NYC’s Black Party, where he lusts after the object of his obsession and experiments with the rituals of an underground society.
(Directed by Bunnyz, 2015, USA, 11 minutes. Miles G Jackson, Hans Berlin, Walter Dundervill, Paul Martin, Maddelyn Hadde, Baroness, Darrel Thorne, Desert Sin, Defacto, Lady Circus, Company XIV, Glenar McQueen and a cast of thousands.)

CineKink Honorable Best Mentions:

EVERYBODY DOES IT
A young woman takes her sexuality into her own hands–literally.
Directed by Megan Brotherton, 2015, USA, 11 minutes.

I AM A TOURIST I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM NAKED
A first German lesson to learn your way around Berlin.
Directed by Margie Schnibbe (AKA Vena Virago), 2015, USA, 4 minutes. Stars Luc Notsnad.

WILD LOVERS
A beautiful day in the country with some sunshine and some rope.
Directed by Isabel Dresler, 2015, USA, 5 minutes. Stars Jiz Lee and Valentine.

CineKink Festival Award for Outstanding Creative Vision:

CLITORISSIMA
A global initiative towards clitoris awareness is made through women’s stories and animated art. (Directed by Giovanna Carla Gia Balestra AKA Vulvah van Klitt, 2015, Denmark, 15 minutes; with animation by Sarah Koppel.)

“BRING IT!” – ADULT INDUSTRY SHOWCASE AWARD
The annual CineKink “Bring It!” award is determined by audience ballot during a presentation of short works and excerpts showcasing adult cinema.

HOUSEBOY
Submissive Tai Crimson applies to be Pandora Blake’s new houseboy. But gorgeous trans housegirl Eliza Grey is jealous. With discipline and compassion, can the pair be trained to get along? (Directed by Pandora Blake, 2015, United Kingdom, 18 minutes.)

CINEKINK TRIBUTE – RECOGNITION OF SEX-POSITIVITY IN MAINSTREAM FILM/TV
Annual festival award for Extraordinary Depiction of Kink and Sex-Positivity in Mainstream Film/Television. Works eligible for consideration this year were those released or aired in the United States from January 1 through December 31, 2015.

CineKink Tribute/2016:
BROAD CITY (Creators Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson; Comedy Central)

Honorable Mentions:
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (Creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna; The CW)
INSIDE AMY SCHUMER (Creators Amy Schumer and Andy Powell; Comedy Central)
MAGIC MIKE XXL (Writer/producer Reid Carolin; Warner Bros. Pictures)