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The Sex Worker Fest has screened over 300 movies since 1999 and videos are still being added to this archive. Our collection also includes sex worker videos we have not yet screened.
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Sex Workers Against the Tide
Action Documentary
,
Web Source
426 views
1
Railroad Allstars- Las Estrellas de la Línea
Feature
,
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2007
562 views
1
AI Turkey – What is your occupation?
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
569 views
2
Sex in Strange Places – Turkey (ISIS – Sex Workers) w/ Stacey Dooley
Documentary
,
Web Source
766 views
1
Human Rights for Sex Workers from Amnesty International
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
586 views
3
MAJOR! official trailer
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Web Source
556 views
6
Tenofivir Trial in Cambodia (sex workers resist) APNSW, WNU NSWP
Documentary
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
799 views
2
Sex Workers Against the Tide
Media Message
,
Web Source
788 views
1
The High Cost of Cheap Clothes (Vice News)
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
794 views
3
Sex Workers in Europe, ICRSE Conference- 2005 Brussels
Event Documentary
,
Screened 2007
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
743 views
3
December 17th
Narrative
,
Listing Only
876 views
3
Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future
458 views
1
La Revolte des Prostituees / The Prostitutes Revolt
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Radio-Audio
,
Web Source
845 views
5
We are all humans. We are all equal
Music Video
,
Web Source
510 views
1
Shit They Say To Sexworkers
Comedy
,
Web Source
835 views
4
Soho Trot
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
967 views
4
Decriminalise Sex Work Now!
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
777 views
2
The Whore Stigma with Margo St. James and Gail Pheterson
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
890 views
4
Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer “Elisa Martínez”, AC
Profile Documentary
,
Web Source
677 views
1
The Politics of Sex: Love Me Want Me Rent Me
Profile Documentary
,
Web Source
1,331 views
4
December 17th, Kırmızı Şemsiye, Turkey
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
969 views
3
MWILI WANGU, CHAUO LANGU – My Body, My Choice
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
873 views
2
Sex Workers Demand
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
583 views
1
Becky’s Journey
Documentary
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2015
858 views
2
Mistress May I?
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,157 views
4
Roxanne
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
1,307 views
4
Born Into Porn
Feature
,
Interview Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2015
2,163 views
5
Save Us From Saviours
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,158 views
3
We Are Foot Soldiers
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
905 views
4
Doin’ It For Themselves (the Hunt Sisters)
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
858 views
3
Being a Refugee is Hard by Muchaneta with SWEAT
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
844 views
4
Molly Crabapple: How police profile and shame sex workers
Experimental
,
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
881 views
4
I’m a sex worker (from Peru)
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
1,011 views
4
Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival Trailer 2015
Music Video
,
Screened 2015
865 views
4
Making Sex Work
Interview Documentary
,
Screened 2015
972 views
5
Community Voices: J’s Voice
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
854 views
6
Breaking The Law by SWAG
Media Message
,
Music Video
,
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
851 views
4
New Jersey Sex Workers Speak Out
Event Documentary
,
Screened 2015
855 views
5
Jasmine and Dora 4-Ever
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,094 views
5
The Malak
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
938 views
5
Ecosexual Feast
Explicit
,
Screened 2015
980 views
3
Sex workers are the solution, not the problem
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
,
Sex Worker Open University
855 views
4
Star-Star presents 17th December 2013
Music Video
,
Health Rights Video Library
737 views
2
Decriminalisation of Sex Work in New Zealand
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
,
Health Rights Video Library
754 views
3
The Street in Red
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,041 views
5
Power of the collective
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
824 views
5
Becoming Belle Knox
Web Source
,
News, interviews
849 views
2
Lovebirds
Explicit
,
Documentary
,
Web Source
745 views
1
Pay It No Mind – The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
1,062 views
5
Transsexual Dominitrix with Shawna Virago
Comedy
,
Music Video
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
833 views
3
Gabriela Leite: Politics and prostitution in Brazil
409 views
1
American Courtesans
Interview Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
900 views
4
Stripper Damage
Comedy
,
Screened 2013
1,200 views
3
(Sex Workers Cry) Rights Not Rescue in Cambodia
Documentary
,
Web Source
752 views
0
San Francisco Sex Worker Fest Trailer 2013
Media Message
,
Music Video
,
Screened 2013
828 views
3
HOPS: Promoting Sex Worker Rights in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
890 views
2
You Must Know About Me: Rights Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
722 views
1
Sex Worker Violence Prevention
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
593 views
2
Tánc az erőszak ellen- Dance Against Violence
Music Video
,
Screened 2013
1,096 views
5
Scarlet Road (trailer)
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
1,072 views
2
Last Rescue in Siam
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Screened 2013
1,219 views
2
Lot Lizard
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2013
1,837 views
3
Normal- Real Stories (trailer)
Feature
,
Screened 2013
987 views
4
one whore
Music Video
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
816 views
4
A Kiss for Gabriela (source interview)
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
916 views
4
Fragments of Ava
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,108 views
4
Ticket to Paradise
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,250 views
4
Equal Rights
Media Message
,
Screened 2013
1,249 views
1
Nada
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
2,200 views
3
Rescue is Violence
Animation
,
Screened 2013
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
853 views
1
Sex Work in The Netherlands – Licia Brussa
Documentary
,
Web Source
568 views
1
WHORE LOGIC (Excerpt 5 mins)
Performance Documentary
,
Screened 2013
,
PJ Starr
853 views
4
Sex Worker Open University 2011
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
887 views
3
Remember the Living: Monica Forrester on Sisters in Spirit and Indigenous Sex Workers
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
849 views
2
Global Sex Workers on the March!
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
806 views
5
Advocating in Albany: No Condoms As Evidence
Action Documentary
,
Screened 2013
929 views
3
Sex Workers and Allies Protest Efforts to Shut Down Backpage
Event Documentary
,
PJ Starr
910 views
1
FIRST Community Forum, Pt. 2 of 4 – Julie Ham
Web Source
,
Panel
598 views
1
Sisonke marches against police brutality
Action Documentary
,
Web Source
661 views
1
Former Sex Workers and Advocates Talk about Condom Use
Documentary
,
Web Source
606 views
0
Protest for France Sex Workers
Documentary
,
Web Source
991 views
1
Caught Between the Tiger and the Crocodile: Trailer
Documentary
,
Screened 2011
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
839 views
6
Sex, Drugs and Student Loans (trailer)
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
1,121 views
4
Indian sex workers fight for their rights
Documentary
,
Web Source
704 views
2
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2011
1,060 views
3
The RighT Guide (Sex Workers Rights) – Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
767 views
3
You Must Know About Me: Rights Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Screened 2011
775 views
2
Creative Trafficking, a short film Operation Snatch created for Les Demimondes
Comedy
,
Screened 2013
992 views
4
Sex on Wheels
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,060 views
2
Nothing About Us Without Us
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
843 views
2
Booking with a sex worker in a Decriminalised state.
Animation
,
Comedy
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
756 views
1
Journey Women: Reflections on the Survival Sex Trade
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
847 views
2
Every Ho I Know Says So
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
879 views
4
Titty Fuck Me
Comedy
,
Music Video
,
Screened 2011
990 views
2
Sex Workers WANT to Stop Trafficking
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
734 views
2
Sex Workers World Cup
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
1,053 views
3
Red Lips: Cages For Black Girls
Experimental
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
856 views
4
Rights Not Rescue
Screened 2011
,
Open Society Foundations
769 views
2
A Day in Her Life
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
891 views
1
Torn (trailer)
Screened 2011
,
PJ Starr
927 views
2
Recommendation 86
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
,
PJ Starr
1,120 views
2
Sex Workers Rights are Human Rights
Media Message
,
Web Source
640 views
1
Working Girl Blues
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
895 views
2
On Transparency in Activism: Why Being Anti-Craigslist is Anti-Justice
Media Message
,
Graphic presentation
,
Web Source
583 views
0
Cinema Of Desire
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2009
920 views
2
Sex workers do harm reduction: II
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
PJ Starr
824 views
4
Tranny Talk with Kitty Kastro -Sex Worker Fest Promo
Music Video
,
Screened 2009
854 views
2
Interview: Laxsmi Tripathi, hijra & sex worker rights activist
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
624 views
1
Happy Endings
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2009
890 views
2
Sadie Lune “I Want You” at Museum of Modern Art
Comedy
,
Performance Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
962 views
3
Turning A Corner (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
891 views
3
“En El Fuego” In The Fire (Excerpt)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
923 views
3
A Safer Sex Trade (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
861 views
3
Beyond The Barbed Wire: Sex Workers In India Help Fight Sex Trafficking
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
904 views
2
Caught between the tiger and the crocodile (full)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
799 views
3
Burn Out: Sex Worker Rights Music Video with Courtney Trouble
Music Video
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
856 views
3
Zinda Lash
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2009
1,067 views
2
Transgenders Life
Screened 2009
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
786 views
3
The Making of Gigi (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
,
PJ Starr
846 views
2
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (10 min English excerpt)
Action Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2007
1,165 views
2
Legalization Sucks! Decriminalize Now (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
870 views
2
Measure Q: Sex Workers Outreach Project, A History
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
814 views
2
Street Survivor
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2007
888 views
3
International Sex Workers Rights Day- The Origin
Action Documentary
,
Screened 2007
828 views
2
Otras Vias (Other Ways)
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2007
1,025 views
2
Ni Coupables, Ni Victimes
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
938 views
3
Sorry Your Grandma Was Mugged But I Was Busy Arresting A Hooker
Comedy
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
912 views
2
Taking the Pledge
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
989 views
2
Somaly Uh Uh- Bad Rehab
Music Video
,
Screened 2011
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
907 views
2
Condoms as Evidence
Animation
,
Screened 2011
,
Open Society Foundations
814 views
2
Prostitution Decriminalization in New Zealand by Robyn Few
Documentary
,
Screened 2005
756 views
3
Lap Dance Blues
Comedy
,
Screened 2005
1,484 views
2
The Naked Feminist: A Documentary Film
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2005
1,263 views
2
Tales of the Night Fairies
Documentary
,
Screened 2003
779 views
2
I Was a Teenage Prostitute
Profile Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2003
883 views
3
Trading Women
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Web Source
839 views
2
Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes
Screened 2001
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
836 views
3
Making Invisible Invincible by I. Swirnoff Featuring C Dunye
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
721 views
2
Texas Taliban (or Vice)
Feature
,
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2001
776 views
3
Screaming Queens – The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
Action Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2001
851 views
1
For Love or Money
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
913 views
2
Big Girls: Big Beautiful Women in the Adult Entertainment Industry
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2001
2,890 views
4
Whore on Whore (1995) by Victoria Schneider
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
940 views
1
Breathe by Joseph Saito
Animation
,
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
693 views
1
A Gram O’ Pussy with Duran Ruiz
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
1,201 views
3
Amores de Rua (Street Lovers)
Documentary
,
Screened 2001
834 views
0
Unyielding Conditioning by Sylvain White & Tamika Miller
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
834 views
2
Sex Flesh in Blood
Experimental
,
Explicit
,
Horror-SciFi
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2001
1,436 views
2
Free Whores
Music Video
,
Screened 2001
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
951 views
0
Annie Sprinkle’s Herstory of Porn
Feature
,
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Explicit-Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
,
Annie Sprinkle
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,066 views
1
Sacrifice (trailer)
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
902 views
1
WADD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN C. HOLMES
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
850 views
1
The Fall of Communism as seen in Gay Pornography
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
799 views
2
The Salt Mines (clip)
Documentary
,
Screened 1999
932 views
1
Straight for The Money (trailer)
Interview Documentary
,
Screened 1999
912 views
0
Gun for Jennifer (trailer)
Feature
,
Horror-SciFi
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
800 views
0
Cotton Candy
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
1,067 views
0
In South Africa, Sex Workers Arm Themselves with the Law
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
1,668 views
1
How Police, Sex Workers, and People Who Use Drugs Are Joining Forces to Prevent HIV
Open Society Foundations
664 views
1
Safe Sex Slut
Music Video
,
Screened 1999
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
912 views
1
Yes Means Yes by Dee Dee Russell
Narrative
,
Screened 1999
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
863 views
1
Prostitution Free Zone
Documentary
,
PJ Starr
923 views
2
Cambodia’s New anti-trafficking law: Sex Workers speak out
Documentary
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
752 views
3
Mother’s Mink
Comedy
,
Web Source
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,028 views
3
SEX WORK IN NEW ZEALAND: The Decriminalization Model
Documentary
,
Sex Worker's Films Database
756 views
1
Bought and Sold
Web Source
778 views
1
How Police Can Arrest the Spread of HIV
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
746 views
1
Trafficking: new slave trade or moral panic?
Panel
705 views
2
Isabel The Witness: Police Officers Commit Crimes Against Sex Workers in Niterói
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
News, interviews
786 views
1
BBC Trafficking Debate in Luxor with Laura Agustín
Web Source
804 views
2
Just Sign on The Dotted Line- The Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
984 views
3
The Honeybringer: Stories from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Sex Worker Open University
783 views
1
Red Umbrella Diaries (trailer)
Performance Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Red Umbrella Project
798 views
1
Where is the Justice- Sex Work in Hungary
Documentary
,
Web Source
825 views
0
Empower, Thailand- Women’s House Productions
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
925 views
2
Message from Kolkata
Media Message
,
Sex Worker Open University
892 views
2
Under The Red Umbrella
Listing Only
,
Sex Worker Open University
872 views
2
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California, narrated by Angela Davis
Documentary
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
861 views
3
Common Life (from Turkey)
Documentary
,
Web Source
832 views
3
Pye Jakobsson: A Swedish sexworker on the criminalization of clients
Web Source
,
News, interviews
837 views
3
Prowling By Night by Gwendolyn
Experimental
,
Animation
,
Listing Only
694 views
1
Party Girl
Listing Only
,
Sex Worker's Films Database
892 views
1
Putes en lutte / Whores Fight Back
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Sex Worker Open University
836 views
2
