Experience the only film festival described as a “celebration of creative sexual expression”, encouraging amateur performers and filmmakers to create erotic films based on their own desires and fantasies.
HUMP! Film Festival, created by syndicated sex advice columnist and co-founder of the It Gets Better Project, Dan Savage, is a celebration of sensual diversity with 21 carefully-curated films that welcome all body shapes, ages, races, genders, and sexualities.
This sex-positive tour will change the way you look at pleasure and eroticism, with films that elicit laughter, intrigue, shock, vulnerability, and empathetic feelings not typically found in mainstream representations of sensuality. HUMP! describes that it “is about acceptance, and the festival is redefining conventional “porn,” one audience at a time.”
Launched in 2005, this Seattle-based festival now spans across theaters from Los Angeles to New York, and hits multiple cities throughout the US and Canada – with several steps left this fall. It promises to “make viewers laugh, gasp, sweat, wriggle in their seats, and genuinely get turned on.” Sign us up!
Dan Savage says, “We bill HUMP! as an amateur porn festival. But it’s more than that. It’s rare for people to watch porn that takes them outside their comfort zones… At HUMP! straight people watch gay porn, vanilla people watch kinky porn, gay people watch lesbian porn… people laugh, they gasp, sometimes they cover their eyes. But at the end of every film people clap and cheer. It’s moving and wonderful and newcomers don’t expect it. The whole festival is a celebration of sexual diversity.”
Visit their tour page here to see the dates in Brooklyn, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Portland, and more! (We’ll be at Brooklyn’s Saturday night screening!)
The tour returns again in 2019 – with all new films for your viewing pleasure.
