BEST VIDEO FEATURE
Champion: Love Hurts, Pink & White Productions

BEST SOLO SEX SCENE
Dylan Ryan*, Crash Pad Series Vol. 3, Pink & White Productions

BEST NEW WEB STAR
Jiz Lee

We’d also like to congratulate Courtney Trouble (Trouble Royale in Wild Search, Crash Pad Series Vol 1 and her outstanding non-sex role in Champion) for her 2 nominations of Best Soundtrack for Roulette and Speakeasy. Dana DeArmond (Superfreak) received several nominations, including Female Performer of the Year. GoodVibes.com was nominated for Best Online Retailer, and their sister company Good Releasing was nominated for Best New Video Production Company. There’s a lot of queer porn being produced and we’re thrilled to be in such great company!

*(Dylan Ryan’s name is sometimes misspelled “Rion”)

Check out Dylan’s Solo at CrashPadSeries.com

Jessie Eaton (Syd Blakovich) is a hotshot jock who can’t let go of her ex-girlfriend, Cathy Summers (Jiz Lee) while making her way into women’s professional Mixed Martial Arts boxing.

Her plans hit a snag when a run in with an old nemesis, Bobby Malone (Javier) blocks her way to the top. To save her career she must throw the match that would surely be her ticket into the professional arena. Even trickier is her attraction to the women she is suppose to beat, Violet Vahn (Dallas) who is Jessie’s toughest opponent inside and outside the ring.

It’s a big lesson in humility and integrity for Jessie as she juggles her relationships and her career. Will she win or will she lose? What does winning and losing mean?

Feminist Porn Awards 2009 Movie of the Year
NOMINATED for 2010 AVN Awards: BEST VIDEO FEATURE!

Trailer: QuickTime format • Windows Media Player format. (2008, 90 min.)

Cast: Syd Blakovich, Dallas, Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Madison Young, Javier, Brooklyn Flaco (non-sex), Trouble Royale (non-sex)

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Trailers

PG-13 Trailer

The film will soon have a website: Champion-movie.com. In the meantime, here’s the Rated PG-13 Trailer for YouTube. Feel free to post it online where you like, and comment!

NC-17 Trailer

QuickTime format • Windows Media Player format. (2008, 90 min.)

Champion, directed by Shine Louise Houston, tells the story of a mixed martial arts fighter named Jessie — played by stinking-hot real life MMA fighter Syd Blakovich — and her trials in and out of the ring. ( Watch the trailer here.) I know I said just last week that buying porn for Valentine’s Day is courting disaster. Yeah, I’m gonna need to take that back in light of this new information.

Firstly, the lighting, sets, music (taiko drumming, a brilliant choice to build fight and sex scenes) and direction are all top-notch, art-house quality. Houston has succeeded in capturing on film the sex you think you’re having when you’re fucking but which — if you’ve ever videotaped yourself and were mortified by the static lumbering combined with fits of frantic jackhammering — seems to have eluded your own lens. (For all you film geeks out there, she shoots on a Panasonic DVX100b at 24p with a 35mm lens adaptor. I don’t know what that means but the results are gorgeous.)

She lingers, with superb editing, on sex scenes that do not dilly-dally themselves. Feverishly hardcore and deeply intimate all at once, the real kissing and passionate oral sex are so arousing and so delightfully greedy compared to the usual faux-lez, slack-jawed tongue rolling, bogus moaning and baby-voiced reprimands.

Every moment of Champion bursts with lust: well-tended butch hands yanking on long, pretty hair, pale flesh all red-hot from slaps, swift, hard penetration and, good lord, finally some decently turned out femmes — no tattered feather boas or god-awful clompy heels. And hey, does your boyfriend suck at digital and oral sex? Are you all like, “Bitch, where’d you learn to handle a pussy, at Butterfly School?” The lad needs to see this movie, trust me. The final scene lacks the same charged charisma as the others but virtually no fast-forwarding, not once.

Thank you, thank you, thank YOU Shine Louise, for making what is hands-down the best pornographic film I have ever seen. Thank you for improving queer female and trans porn by more leaps and bounds than words can adequately express. And thank you most of all for making a movie that I got so out-of-sorts watching at the Toronto premiere that I had to take not one, not two, but three people home to deal with the situation. (One of you left your copy at my house, by the way.) I don’t care who you are or what you like to fuck, it doesn’t seem possible that you won’t find this film utterly captivating. Champion is available locally at Good For Her.

Thursday, April 23rd 7:30 pm, at the Little Roxie in San Francisco is a special screening of the hot new movie by Shine Louise Houston. Meet the Director and cast!

CHAMPION PREMIER
Thursday, Apr 23th 2009
7:30PM (Doors open 7:00pm) to 9:45pm
3117 16th Street near Valencia
Little Roxie Phone: (415) 252-4340
Little Roxie, San Francisco, CA

After Party: Please join us after the screening, for the after-party at Pops bar at 2800 24th Street, San Francisco, where you can party with the cast of this extraordinary film.

Incorporating the qualities of both the world of queer porn and more mainstream queer cinema, CHAMPION: Love Hurts marks an exciting new stage in the career of award-winning director Shine Louise Houston. With a compelling storyline, extremely sexy performers and, of course, scorching hot sex, this is one screening you’re not going to want to miss!

Jessie Eaton is a hotshot cage fighter in the fight of her life… and for her life. While training for the fight that will make or break her career, she is also haunted by her relationship with her ex-girlfriend and confronted with her attraction to Violet Vahn… her opponent. And her nemesis, Bobby Malone, is demanding that she throw the fight, or else. Jessie never loses, but this time, what does winning actually mean? The result is a real knockout.

Starring:
Syd Blakovich as… Jessie Eaton
Dallas as… Violet Vahn
Jiz Lee as… Cathy Summers
Javier as… Bobby Malone
Dylan Ryan as… Tiny

Also featuring:
Madison Young
Trouble Royale
Brooklyn Flaco

The Smitten Kitten has set the standard for conscious sex toy sales (see their site Coalition Against Toxic Toys – BadVibes.org). They’re a rad group of folks and we’re about a big a fan of them as they are of us! Thanks Smitten Kitten! See you soon.

Join The Smitten Kitten for a screening of the film Champion and a discussion about feminism and porn with the director, Shine Louis Houston and the star of the film, Syd Blakovich.

Sunday, April 5th at 7:00 pm.
RSVP Required/$20 advance/$22 door… Don’t miss this!

The Smitten Kitten
3010 Lyndale Avenue
South Minneapolis, MN 55408