REMEDY was reviewed by Tits and Sass! (Thank you Lori Adorable.)
… and the follow up interview.
I couldn’t ask for better than these! No matter what happens, I know the people I care about the most love the film.
REMEDY and Director Cheyenne Picardo in Alternet!
A few weeks ago, when I was in a taxi cab to JFK, I spoke to journalist Chris Hall about sex work and REMEDY. Read the article here!
La Fête du Slip
REMEDY screened three times in Lausanne, Switzerland as part of gender and sexuality film festival La Fete du Slip on March 7, 8, and 9..
I was lucky enough to be able to attend this festival, and I want to commend everyone involved for their support and kindness… and for putting me up and taking me cheese shopping. I hope to be a part of it next year! (Hopefully my French will improve by then as well.)
REMEDY’s Rotterdam Success!
A newly subtitled edition of REMEDY screened on January 29 in Rotterdam to a sold out house. Here was what some of them had to say:
“REMEDY is a good example of the quality you can find in the indy scene. Often kinky movies are mainly about images and lack a good storyline. This wasn’t the case with REMEDY, it was intriguing till the end.”
“I thought REMEDY was brilliant… I love the change between funny, awkward and horny. The opening scene which left you disgusted right away, the scene with the actor which took my breath away. Good music, beautiful images. Yes, I loved it!”
So pleased that it went over so well, and looking forward to more European success stories!
Private Screening at Videology on 2/2
They came again, my friends, and this time they brought their friends. And this time, thanks to this review, a few of the “industry people” came. As a result of reactions from that screening and from the review itself, I am DETERMINED to schedule a “Pros Only” screening for women who worked in houses, particularly, plus any other sex worker who may want to join.
Videology, which was a fantastic screening location, may very well host a public screening of the film for free — meaning I don’t have to rent space. More details on that as they come.
Additionally, I hope that the Videology screening can help me kick off a series of private events, which the only way people in the United States can see the film until I get the music licensing straightened out. (Actually, I’m still holding out that some domestic festival takes a shine to the film. I can still hope, eh?)
Review from TitsAndSass.com
“The film is by no means a litany of horrors. It shows the positive moments and even the mundane ones. This is working in a house dungeon, in all of its awkward, bizarre, horrifying, hilarious, heart-wrenching glory. This is also the story of entering, and the story of leaving.”
Perhaps the best review I could hope for, given that it was written by a fellow pro-switch – Lori Adorable.
REMEDY was always intended to be a movie for people like me, who had worked in houses and either went on to independent work or who had left sex work behind entirely. My fear was that they would watch the film like programmers watch Hackers or doctors watch House, picking apart each and every inaccuracy. Yeah, I got choked up when I read it.
NewFilmmakers Winterfest at Anthology
They come to see my film. My closest friends. They come from everywhere: high school, nerd camp, goth clubs, fetish clubs, Columbia’s co-ed literary society, a favorite karaoke bar, roller derby, burlesque… the perverted version of the end of It’s a Wonderful Life.
And I was terrified, punctuated by my unsubtle sneaking of sips of The Kraken spiced rum from the bottle. I had stood in front of strangers in Seattle, Portland, Berlin, and barely broke a sweat. But in front of my own friends, I was a complete wreck. Staring at the floor, afraid to see that “you made me sit through your shitty band” look — which is only familiar because of the number of times I’ve tried to hide it.
But it went well. My friends and I closed the KGB Bar. They bought me spiced rum. Some were seeing the film for the second time.
The hard part is clearly over. I am loved, the movie is loved, and I can’t wait to put this baby out to pasture and start the next one.
Brilliant Review from the Folks at Slixa!
There are definitely going to be those who see Remedy as a cautionary tale about a young woman losing herself in sex work. But that reduces Remedy’s story to cheap melodrama and misses the point entirely. Remedy isn’t the movie that you’d show someone to sell them on the idea of becoming a pro domme, but neither is it a morality tale about the dangers of kink, professional or otherwise. – Chris Hall
Earlier this fall, I had the pleasure of meeting the folks at Slixa at the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit in Washington, DC, where I did double duty as both videographer and presenter with my talk on “Sexual Positivity in Film: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” In that talk I explored whether it’s possible to have a sex-positive film with a tragic trajectory. Well, according to the reviewer, I was able to do just that.
Read the wonderful review here!
Just so you know, Slixa is a classy online resource to help clients connect with sex workers of all persuasions. Unlike other advertising sites, it also contains an informative blog talking about political and everyday topics relevant to sex workers, including advocacy, human rights, fashion, entertainment, outreach, lobbying, etc. So happy to be featured and so well reviewed on their site — I’ve read some of the other reviews and they do *not* pull punches when it comes to giving their opinions on depictions of sex work in media.
– C
Festival News
This fall REMEDY was invited to Germany to screen in competition at the PornFilmFestival Berlin, playing to full houses for both of its screenings. One month later, REMEDY also screened in competition at the Fetisch Film Festival in Kiel, Germany.
Most recently REMEDY was selected to screen as part of WinterFest 2014 as part of the NewFilmmakers Series in New York, NY. The screening will occur on January 4, 2014, at 9:00 pm at Anthology Film Archives.
We can’t wait to kick off the 2014 festival season!