Austin, TX – Sssh.com’s Angie Rowntree will be in Austin, Texas this weekend for SXSW. The esteemed director will speak on the panel “Using Explicit Sex as a Storytelling Element.”
The event will be held on Sunday March 11, 2018 at 3:30 PM. The panel’s official hashtag is #sexstoryfilm.In addition to discussing artistic and technical choices related to using explicit sex in filmmaking, Rowntree will also discuss various social and cultural issues impacting adult content production today. These include safety standards, workplace ethics, representation, and common misperceptions of porn.
“I appreciate the opportunity to speak about the differences between mainstream and adult films – and the unique challenges that come with shooting porn,” Rowntree shared.
“Really engaging why explicit sex is important to our narrative as human beings and talking about some of the misconceptions people outside the adult industry have about shooting adult content — and how work like mine is challenging some of those off-mark ideas — is important. I’m excited to take part,” she added
Later that evening, Rowntree’s work will be part of a small private screening — #SexStoryFilmFest — at the Austin Dungeon. Tickets for this seperate event can be purchased for $12 via EventBrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
SXSW Film 2018 runs from March 9 through 18. For more details about SXSW Film 2018, please go here: http://www.sxsw.com/film
About Angie Rowntree
Angie Rowntree is the founder of Sssh.com, the web’s premier “porn for women” site and winner of the XBIZ’s Adult Site of the Year — For Women 2017 award, among many others. Rowntree got her start in the adult industry’s online sector in the early ‘90s, making her one of the Internet’s true porn pioneers. She is regarded as one of the adult industry’s top female power-players and was inducted into the prestigious AVN Hall of Fame – Internet Founders Division in 2014.
Rowntree is a frequent participant on panel discussions at adult industry trade shows and has been profiled by a variety of major media outlets, including ABC’s Nightline, CNBC, Fox, Cosmopolitan, NPR, BBC, and TIME magazine. Most recently, Rowntree became the first member of the adult industry to speak at a Sundance Institute event, appearing at the “Creative Tensions: Sex” experimental interactive discussion event in Brooklyn.
Contact Angie Rowntree at via Twitter at @AngieRowntree.
About Sssh.com
Launched in 1999, Sssh.com is the web’s premier “porn for women” site. Drawing on survey responses and other community feedback, Sssh creates cinematic-quality erotic content based on members’ fantasies and desires. Sssh’s sex-positive films and vignettes communicate true passion and mutual pleasure, always striving to be equal parts intelligent, sexy, and entertaining — with great success. Their movies and the site itself have been honored with numerous awards and nominations over the years, including most recently Adult Site of the Year — For Women (XBIZ 2017). Sssh was the first adult company to be a semi-finalist at a mainstream film festival (Gone, Swedish Film Festival, 2016) and was the first to produce a VR movie geared towards women using dynamic storytelling that can be viewed with or without a headset.
A narrative-rich space, Sssh.com also offers a large selection of original erotic fiction, podcasts, an extensive virtual world, and educational articles. Sssh produces the Mindbrowse events, an interactive series of online live panel discussions that explore social issues related to sexuality and erotica. The weekly Twitter-based chat program #SexTalkTuesday has featured noteworthy guest moderators including comedian Margaret Cho, sexpert Emily Morse, and performance artist Desiree Burch, among many others. And in an effort to support wider positive social change, Sssh contributes regularly to a variety of charitable causes benefiting communities around the world.
Adhering to the highest ethical standards, Sssh.com takes pride in treating its employees, performers, customers, business associates, and wider community with fairness, compassion, and respect. Sssh is a member of the Ethical Porn Partnership and was one of the first studios to receive the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC) Stamp of Approval in January 2017.
Contact Sssh.com via Twitter at @SsshforWomen.
