Down N Dirty ..Behind the Scenes in Queer Filmmaking September 23, 2006

Please join us in the 6th Down N Dirty, Behind the Scenes of Queer Filmmakers as we feature Shine Louise Houston.
WHEN: Saturday September 23, 2006
WHERE: Femina Potens Gallery, 465 S. Van Ness btwn 15 &16th streets
SHOWTIME: doors at 7:30 pm / show 8pm
TICKETS: $5-10 sliding scale no one turned away for lack of funds.
INFO: www.feminapotens.com / (415) 217-9340

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Femina Potens Gallery showcases its innovative monthly film series Down & Dirty: the Intimate World of Queer Filmmaking Saturday, September 23, 2006, featuring selected shorts from queer filmmaker Shine Louise Houston.

The ongoing series features film and dialogue with Bay Area Queer Filmmakers as part of Femina Potens 2006 Film Screenings, this new series is programmed by guest curator, and local filmmaker Shani Heckman. Celebrate and promote local queer, trans, and women video artists as we feature intimate and interactive conversations with local filmmakers, a shot-by-shot analysis of their filmmaking process, stories from behind the scenes, and the inside scoop on San Francisco's filmmaking community each film is followed by an intimate Q&A with the audience.

Award-winning filmmaker Shine Houston's films are breathing fresh breath into women for women porn production here in San Francisco. Utilizing local, real couples, full body figures and brilliant lighting schemes, enabled "Crash Pad" the first feature directed and produced by Houston, to sell thousands of copies within it's first 30 days of distribution on Blowfish. Currently working on her third feature with her production company Pink and White, Houston is creating a strong production base for women-made, independent adult movies in the Bay Area. Houston will reveal secrets to breaking into the filmmaking world, challenges and joys shooting making the hottest contemporary adult videos around and will top it all off with hot scenes from the upcoming feature, Superfreak and behind the scenes interviews done with Kink.com.

ARTIST BIO:
Shine Louise left her home town of Long Beach California and arrived in San Francisco in 1994 to attend CCAC as a painting major. She would never have guessed that 10 years later she would be spearheading the world of queer porn with steamy, sex positive, politically aware features of her own. As the founder of Pink&White Productions, Shine is planning a myriad of stunning visual escapades for everyone to enjoy.

Pink&White's premiere production, The Crash Pad, has been seen at several LGBT international film festivals and will be making a European Premiere in Paris, France with Cinefabble, an all women film festival. The Crash Pad won Best Dyke Sex Scene award at the Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto, Canada this past year.

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Shani Heckman, Guest Curator is a long-time activist, publicist and creator of Shanestar Productions, winner of the Best of the Bay by SF Weekly in 2006 and recipient of the Film Arts Foundation's STAND grant for first time film directors in 2003. She has curated popular short film screenings for the past three years. Her recent short doc "Wrong Bathroom" won the Best Local Voice award at the San Francisco International Women's Film Festival this past summer and is currently touring the festival circuit. www.shanestar.org

Femina Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and trans-folk through art and winner of the San Francisco's Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay, 2006. Sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center, with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Femina Potens is one of the leading queer organizations in San Francisco. Femina Potens has been featured on the Australian television show, Out and About, Q-Television, the documentary TranArchy, Japan's Foil Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the San Francisco Guardian, which called Femina Potens a crucial bit of justice.

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