Hi All,

Quick update on the British Fetish Film Festival.

We had our screening for producers a couple of months ago. Since then we have been organising behind the scenes to prepare a proposal for our local council for permission to hold the festival here. We are drafting a written proposal and sending them a DVD with examples of the films we would like to show.

There is a brief hiatus over summer because the principal organisers have:
A) spent July shooting an awesome mainstream feature film (low budget, but spectacularly higher budget than any fetish film production. Great fun, learned a lot)

B) are recovering from that, catching up on website business and emails before

C) going to Fetishcon

D) frankly… we’re also waiting for the tabloid feeding frenzy associated with Cameron’s war on porn to die down a bit.

We hope that a submission to the council a little later on in the year will have a greater chance of a fair hearing. The current conflation of all the things conservative hand-wringers and the Daily Mail don’t like together with entirely legal and lovely erotica is pernicious, corrosive and deeply disturbing. Far more worrying than people watching porn.

Since we would have been in a huge rush to get it done before Fetishcon, we thought a little delay wouldn’t hurt. The film festival is alive- it is top of our priority list to proceed once the summer is over and things are back to normal.