BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival Announces Film Selections and Annual Sponsor Fundraiser
Bay Area adult film festival celebrates sexual expression through cinema with 69 selections
For Immediate Release:
SAN FRANCISCO, California, USA (July 10th, 2025) — Organizers announce official selections for the 2025 BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival August 16th at the historic Brava Theater with educational workshops, short film programs and artist talks, and streaming online August 17th-31st, powered by streaming adult platform PinkLabel.TV. The festival’s sixth anniversary edition is presented with the generous support of Premiere Sponsors MakeLoveNotPorn, AV Flox, and the Center for Sex & Culture.
2025 BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival
August 16th, 2025
Brava Theater, California
&
August 17th – 31st, 2025
On-Demand at SFPFF.PinkLabel.TV
The BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival is both a celebration of adult cinema’s rich history and a showcase for the bold innovations of today’s filmmakers. Now in its sixth year, the festival presents a curated collection of 69 films that span genres from experimental to documentary. Together, they offer a vibrant, thought-provoking exploration of human sexuality, intimacy, power, and pain—an erotic smorgasbord with something for everyone.
Since its launch in 2020 as an online-only, livestreamed event during the COVID-19 pandemic, BLUSH has grown into a beloved hybrid festival with both in-person and virtual screenings. The organizers built a dedicated broadcasting platform for uncensored adult content and shared this technology with peer festivals across the globe. As theaters reopened, BLUSH maintained its commitment to accessibility and safety, continuing to reach audiences worldwide.
Adult-oriented festivals are routinely excluded from government subsidies and shunned by mainstream sponsors; however BLUSH delivers a high-quality experience for audiences and filmmakers alike. Unique among short film festivals, it upholds a commitment to paying filmmaker stipends, recognizing the labor and artistic value of erotic film.
In an era where cinemas are shuttering, nonprofit organizations face major funding cuts, and sexual media is under threat from censorship and legal rollbacks, adult film festivals like BLUSH play a crucial role in defending sexual expression and free speech.
To sustain this important work, the festival hosts an annual fundraiser inviting support from the international filmmaking community and its allies. Donations help fund essentials like renting an accessible theater and paying artists. With a goal of raising $7,000, supporters are offered thank-you perks including VIP passes, presale tickets, limited-edition T-shirts, PinkLabel.TV gift cards, on-stage acknowledgments, and brand placements.
By uplifting erotic art and creating space for diverse sexual storytelling, BLUSH continues to push the genre forward and expand the cinematic language of sexuality—from the Bay Area to the world.
The 2025 BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival kicks off Saturday, August 16th at the Brava Theater with a full day of in-person events celebrating the art of adult cinema and sex-positive education, hosted by Dr. Carol Queen. Join festival organizers and filmmakers for photos on the red carpet.
The day begins as acclaimed sex educator Jamie Joy leads an engaging workshop on the essential skills of negotiation and scene planning in the Brava Cabaret. In the Main Stage, the festival’s first short film program ART/SMUT features artistic and experimental erotic shorts, showcasing bold visuals and boundary-pushing storytelling. After the screening, special guests BeyonDeep and Dolly Rose will take to the stage for an artist talk with festival director Shine Louise Houston. A high-energy closing program for the night, F*CKING/FUN delivers short films with humor and creativity. Filmmaker guests Ramses Rodstein, Her Dark Enigma, and Jiz Lee will join Houston for an artist talk following the films.
In-person events wrap with the festival’s AFTER/PARTY at the Brava’s Cabaret where attendees can enjoy refreshments and keep the conversations going late into the night.
On Sunday, August 17th the entire festival goes virtual with RE/PLAY, with 8 festival programs on-demand until August 31st. A global and local mix of joyful, body-positive, and imaginative adult films reflect the latest in contemporary and conscientious pornographic storytelling.
A full list of Programs and Official Selections appears below.
Follow the fest on BlueSky and Instagram; direct inquiries to info@sfpornfilmfestival.com.
A Festival Press Kit can be found here.
Early Tickets are offered through the festival fundraiser: igg.me/at/BLUSH2025
Starting August 1st, tickets will be available on its website: sfpff.pinklabel.tv
About the BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival
The BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival seeks to showcase the creativity and craft of adult-oriented films from the Bay Area and beyond. Inspired by numerous adult film events, we want to specifically thank the Berlin PornFilmFestival for its namesake and guidance in forming this new American landmark festival. We embark on this journey to celebrate San Francisco’s vibrant legacy of sex-positive film artists.
About PinkLabel.TV
A streaming video-on-demand network for porn films that ‘push the genre’, PinkLabel.TV has been described as a kind of “Criterion Collection” of sexual cinema, inviting viewers to browse and discover landmark titles from adult film classics to contemporary erotic film.
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2025 BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival Program Schedule and Official Selections
SATURDAY, August 16th (Theatrical Kick-Off!)
WORKSHOP/From Fantasy to Reality: Negotiation & Scene Creation
Instructor: Jamie Joy
Saturday August 16th 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Ready to turn your fantasies into reality? This workshop dives into the essential skills of negotiation and scene planning, empowering you to create experiences that are thrilling, consensual, and deeply connected. Learn how to communicate desires, establish boundaries, and build trust—all while designing scenes that spark joy and excitement for everyone involved. Through interactive exercises and live demonstrations, you will gain tangible tools in the areas of dirty talk, domination, submission, creative use of toys, roleplay, power dynamics, scene flow, energy exchange, and more – everything you need to thrive in the art of negotiation and the magic of bringing fantasies to life.
What to bring and expect:
This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels.
No explicit sex will be involved.
Please contact us if you have access needs and we will do our best to accommodate.
About the Presenter:
Jamie Joy (they/them) is a queer trans Jewish certified sex educator and hungry slut for freaky fantasies. Their life and work is committed to spreading joy, consent, and pleasure through community orgynizing. They have been educating on a wide range of topics related to sex and sexuality for the past 10+ years with experience in K-12 schools, health clinics, college campuses, adult sex shops, national conferences, BDSM dungeons, non-profits, community organizations, and more. Jamie Joy loves to stay up late, throw an unforgettable party, and teach people about the wonders of fisting and fire play. They are always excited to connect and collaborate. Find them on Instagram @thebadjewboy or their website, jamiejoy.com
ART/SMUT
Saturday, August 16th, 6:00-7:50 PM PST (Doors open at 5:30 PM)
BRAVA THEATER
“Ceci N’est Pas Une Porn…”
How do YOU define porn? Will you know it when you see it? This short film curation explores the sexual image through intimate gesture and erotic storytelling.
Presented in-person at the Brava Theater! Followed by a post-screening filmmaker talk moderated by festival director Shine Louise Houston. Doors open at 5:30 PM, 30 minutes before the show.
Again
Blue Movie
Boot Blast
Flesh & Fire
Hey Everybody: Let’s Make a Porno! / HELMAP #1: PornyDays
MILF
Mommy
Mouth Pleasure
OBJET #0001
Siren’s Kiss
Taste Like Chicken
The Key to Dreams
The Male Gaze Recipe
Welcome to Sexy
Y2KAGE
F*CKING/FUN
Saturday, August 16th, 8:30-9:50 PM PST (Doors open at 8:00 PM)
BRAVA THEATER
“A smorgasbord in sexual storytelling!”
Experimental, explicit, funny, and just plain fun to watch, these short films span humor and creativity.
Presented in-person at the Brava Theater! Followed by a post-screening filmmaker talk moderated by festival director Shine Louise Houston. Doors open at 8:00 PM, 30 minutes before the show.
BACKSEAT
Convolo
CrashPadSeries: J London & Johnny Castro
Criminal Craving
El Señor Simio Supremo Sensational Suds
Footwear Eroticism (Erotik des Schuhwerks)
Gummiboot
In All The Rooms We Met
My Gender is a Fiction
Night Shift
Petros Becomes Spaghetti
Sanguine
The BeCumming
The Stage of Flesh
TOP SECRET
Tromboner
AFTER/PARTY
Saturday, August 16th, 10:00-11:30 PM PST
Stick around after the final show and join us in the Brava Cabaret. Audience, artists, and festival organizers come together to celebrate the day’s in-person conclusion. Let’s raise a glass and keep the conversation flowing!
AUGUST 17TH – 31ST
RE/PLAY
Sunday, August 17th – Sunday, August 31st
The festival’s film program overflows into the online screening with even more films to be enjoyed. Our official selection of 69 films spanning 8 exciting programs will be available for two weeks streaming on-demand until August 31st.
Watch (or re-watch) ART/SMUT and F*CKING/FUN, plus enjoy exclusive online-only curations.
BIG/BANG
“Dare you to keep count!”
From threesomes to more-somes, esteemed porn-makers from across the globe prove that more really IS merrier.
BANG MIRROR
Birth
Denim
Everyone loves Sofi
Orgy Every Other Day
The Elephant In The Room
ECO/EROTIC
“Assume the ecosexual position!”
These films surrender to nature, explore the birds and the bees, and answer the call of the wild.
Darwin fantasía
Honey To The Moon
Imagine the Earth as Your Lover
LILITH RISING
PACHAMAMA
Roots of Pleasure
LOCAL/LORE
“I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of…” – Michelle Tea
Take a trip through the smut capital of America with these Bay Area-made films that follow the progressive, sex-positive path of our erotic city’s legendary sex worker rights activists, writers, and erotic artists.
Boot Blast
CrashPadSeries: J London & Johnny Castro
Flesh & Fire
MILF
Roots of Pleasure
The Crash Pad (2005) 20th Anniversary Retrospective
POWER/PLAY
“Everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde
Bondage and wax play and safewords… Oh My! Consensually kinky cinema explores taboos and tests our limits.
A typical day
Autoerotic Centesis
Invoked
Le Porno du Mal
Procesos
REEL/SEX
“Balancing insightful documentaries and sexy fun.”
Beautiful, powerful, quirky, and fascinating, these short films offer new perspectives on sexuality.
A Certain Kind Courage for (un-disabled) lust – A journey to self-worth through pleasure
Hambre (Hunger)
How to Eat a Whole Watermelon and Get Away With it
Just For Piss
Les fantômes du hard / The ghosts of hard
Memorabilia
Onanism or my trans body makes me so fucking horny
PLEASURE ENGINEER
SEX/SCENE
“If you think you know porn, think again!”
From fantastical sex to representation that matters, these films reflect the wide range of what sex looks like on camera.
Chair Moi
Chulicha
Cristina
CUMRAGS
Indulgent Delights
Kiss me by the sight
Own Embrace
Paint me like a French Boy
She and Her Good Vibrations
The Porn Selector
The Ranch Hands Uncensored