SFFL 2023: The Modern Gaze of Sex on Screen

The way we talk about sex in films is constantly evolving – audience responses to challenging sex scenes are different today than they were even five years ago. What’s sexy to one person could be triggering for another. So, how do the creative voices approach portraying different kinds of sexuality in their films, and how can they do that while protecting cast and crew?

Speakers: Gregg Araki (writer/director of The Doom Generation); Lío Mehiel (actor, Mutt); Ita O'Brien, intimacy coordinator and founder of Intimacy on Set; Ira Sachs (writer/director of Passages).

Moderator: Anna Bogutskaya, author, programmer and podcaster.