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Contact: Camilla Lombard
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Good Vibrations
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www.goodvibesquickies.com

Good Vibrations QUICKIES Erotic Shorts Competition Announces Finalists!

Erotic Film Fest Keeps it Short and Sweet with Sexy Cinema from Around the World

SAN FRANCISCO (September 5^th, 2012): Good Vibrations invites you to enjoy some lively loving at the 7^th annual QUICKIES Indie Erotic Quickies Competition on Friday, October 26^th at the Castro Theatre where filmmakers from around the world show their stuff in 7 minutes or less.

This high-quality collection with a comedic bent includes a wide variety of tastes and budgets, reflecting a more diverse and entertaining sexual range than in mainstream media. Awarded SF Weekly’s “Best Place to See Your (Talented and Attractive) Neighbors Naked,” this year’s finalists include neighbors from Australia, Germany, Canada, Israel, and the United States with films like “James Bondage in Double O Sexy”, “Love Birds”, and “Reverse Cowgirl”, exploring everything from comically complicated three-ways to the strange fate of avian love.

Saucy Indie film queen and drag celebrity extraordinaire, Peaches Christ and Good Vibrations’ own Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen start the night with a Halloween pre-party in the mezzanine where film goers warm up for a night of sexy cinema with live music, cold cocktails, hot burlesque, tasty bites, and sexy give-aways. Then it’s onto the erotic short film competition where drag divas Lady Bear and Hugz Bunny join Dr. Queen, and Peaches Christ to navigate the steamy terrain with fierce humor and sexological insight. The audience decides who gave it best, and the film with the most applause wins $1,500.

Good Vibrations’ film festival producer Camilla Lombard explains: “Any way you like it — funny, serious, explicit, romantic, straight, queer, kinky, animated, or something else entirely — you’ll be glowing after this quick and frisky romp. Creativity, originality, and humor come together for an outrageous night that everyone can enjoy.”

Sponsors & Partners:

Good Vibrations would like to thank and acknowledge the following sponsors and partners for their friendship and support: LELO, Stockroom, Kheper Games Inc., Leather Etc., Vixen Creations, Twin Peaks Tavern, San Francisco Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, Bay Area Reporter, XBIZ, Wet, Speakeasy Beer, Hot Cookie, The Sausage Factory, and Evolution Fresh Juice.

Quickies: www.goodvibesquickies.com

View Quickies finalists: www.goodvibesquickies.com/films

Press Downloads: www.goodvibesquickies.com/media

Social: Say hello on our Facebook page! Follow the event on Twitter! #gvquickies

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239042

Continue your “super sex weekend” the following day with Good Vibrations’ first annual Sex Summit, a dynamic conference on America’s sexual state of the union with a series of panels and keynote presentations by esteemed author and research scientist Debby Herbenick Ph.D, award-winning journalist Brian Alexander, sex therapist and lecturer Dr. Marty Klein and more. For event details, presenter bios, tickets, and hotel reservations, visit http://goodvibessexsummit.com.

About Good Vibrations

Good Vibrations is the San Francisco-based retailer trusted for more than three decades to provide a comfortable, safe environment for finding sex-positive products and educational materials to enhance one’s sex life. Good Vibrations offers products through its website (www.goodvibes.com) and its retail stores.

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“It’s arty, edgy, funny, sexy, and more!”
- Sister Dana Van Iquity, SF Bay Times

“Despite the sinking sensation that our beloved Gomorrah by the Bay seems to be slowly but surely replacing sexual openness with culinary whimsy as its dominant subcultural draw (though the two have been known to make occasional bedfellows), the squirrelly spirit of independent erotica remains as bushy-tailed as ever. Eschewing mainstream productions of quotidian eroticism in favor of a more populist prurience, the Good Vibrations Independent Erotic Film Festival puts the spotlight on sexy films made by the people in your neighborhood.”
- Evan James, SF Weekly

“September 17’s competition at the Castro Theatre brought out the best, brightest, and naked-est in a series of shorts that will hopefully help to redefine the future of the genre. For those of us tired of the overproduced crap that usually passes for pornography, the screening was a breath of kinky fresh air.”
- Louis Peitzman, SexSF Blog, SF Bay Guardian

“Being part of this festival is really an honor. It is without a doubt the most important independent erotic film festival in the world.”
- Éric Falardeau, IXFF filmmaker

“Erotica is too often reduced to a couple of familiar tropes pushing all-too familiar buttons. What makes GV-IXFF special is its inclusion of a diverse set of movies, voices, sexualities that all belong under that wide banner of erotica. There’s a real sense of inclusion and experimentation with the festival that I haven’t encountered elsewhere. Keep it rolling Good Vibes!”
-Travis Mathews, IXFF filmmaker

“The hottest platform for new ‘degenerate’ art in SF.”
-Nara Denning, IXFF filmmaker