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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
382 views
1
Railroad Allstars- Las Estrellas de la Línea
Feature
,
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2007
524 views
1
AI Turkey – What is your occupation?
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
529 views
2
Sex in Strange Places – Turkey (ISIS – Sex Workers) w/ Stacey Dooley
Documentary
,
Web Source
715 views
1
Human Rights for Sex Workers from Amnesty International
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
545 views
3
MAJOR! official trailer
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Web Source
514 views
6
Tenofivir Trial in Cambodia (sex workers resist) APNSW, WNU NSWP
Documentary
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
735 views
2
Sex Workers Against the Tide
Media Message
,
Web Source
735 views
1
The High Cost of Cheap Clothes (Vice News)
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
737 views
3
Sex Workers in Europe, ICRSE Conference- 2005 Brussels
Event Documentary
,
Screened 2007
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
695 views
3
December 17th
Narrative
,
Listing Only
824 views
3
Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future
425 views
1
La Revolte des Prostituees / The Prostitutes Revolt
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Radio-Audio
,
Web Source
797 views
5
We are all humans. We are all equal
Music Video
,
Web Source
471 views
1
Shit They Say To Sexworkers
Comedy
,
Web Source
778 views
4
Soho Trot
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
918 views
4
Decriminalise Sex Work Now!
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
744 views
2
The Whore Stigma with Margo St. James and Gail Pheterson
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
845 views
4
Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer “Elisa Martínez”, AC
Profile Documentary
,
Web Source
638 views
1
The Politics of Sex: Love Me Want Me Rent Me
Profile Documentary
,
Web Source
1,259 views
4
December 17th, Kırmızı Şemsiye, Turkey
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
919 views
3
MWILI WANGU, CHAUO LANGU – My Body, My Choice
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
827 views
2
Sex Workers Demand
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
543 views
1
Becky’s Journey
Documentary
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2015
819 views
2
Mistress May I?
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,100 views
4
Roxanne
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
1,230 views
4
Born Into Porn
Feature
,
Interview Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2015
2,116 views
5
Save Us From Saviours
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,108 views
3
We Are Foot Soldiers
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
864 views
4
Doin’ It For Themselves (the Hunt Sisters)
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
814 views
3
Being a Refugee is Hard by Muchaneta with SWEAT
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
799 views
4
Molly Crabapple: How police profile and shame sex workers
Experimental
,
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
841 views
4
I’m a sex worker (from Peru)
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
949 views
4
Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival Trailer 2015
Music Video
,
Screened 2015
813 views
4
Making Sex Work
Interview Documentary
,
Screened 2015
930 views
5
Community Voices: J’s Voice
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
814 views
6
Breaking The Law by SWAG
Media Message
,
Music Video
,
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
806 views
4
New Jersey Sex Workers Speak Out
Event Documentary
,
Screened 2015
811 views
5
Jasmine and Dora 4-Ever
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,037 views
4
The Malak
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
888 views
5
Ecosexual Feast
Explicit
,
Screened 2015
922 views
3
Sex workers are the solution, not the problem
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
,
Sex Worker Open University
812 views
4
Star-Star presents 17th December 2013
Music Video
,
Health Rights Video Library
691 views
2
Decriminalisation of Sex Work in New Zealand
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
,
Health Rights Video Library
708 views
3
The Street in Red
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
998 views
5
Power of the collective
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
781 views
5
Becoming Belle Knox
Web Source
,
News, interviews
806 views
2
Lovebirds
Explicit
,
Documentary
,
Web Source
690 views
1
Pay It No Mind – The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
1,027 views
5
Transsexual Dominitrix with Shawna Virago
Comedy
,
Music Video
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
784 views
3
Gabriela Leite: Politics and prostitution in Brazil
383 views
1
American Courtesans
Interview Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
858 views
4
Stripper Damage
Comedy
,
Screened 2013
1,141 views
3
(Sex Workers Cry) Rights Not Rescue in Cambodia
Documentary
,
Web Source
715 views
0
San Francisco Sex Worker Fest Trailer 2013
Media Message
,
Music Video
,
Screened 2013
789 views
3
HOPS: Promoting Sex Worker Rights in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
850 views
2
You Must Know About Me: Rights Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
684 views
1
Sex Worker Violence Prevention
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
553 views
1
Tánc az erőszak ellen- Dance Against Violence
Music Video
,
Screened 2013
1,010 views
4
Scarlet Road (trailer)
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
1,006 views
2
Last Rescue in Siam
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Screened 2013
1,157 views
2
Lot Lizard
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2013
1,728 views
3
Normal- Real Stories (trailer)
Feature
,
Screened 2013
927 views
4
one whore
Music Video
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
766 views
4
A Kiss for Gabriela (source interview)
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
872 views
4
Fragments of Ava
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,053 views
4
Ticket to Paradise
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,186 views
4
Equal Rights
Media Message
,
Screened 2013
1,190 views
1
Nada
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
2,126 views
3
Rescue is Violence
Animation
,
Screened 2013
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
797 views
1
Sex Work in The Netherlands – Licia Brussa
Documentary
,
Web Source
530 views
1
WHORE LOGIC (Excerpt 5 mins)
Performance Documentary
,
Screened 2013
,
PJ Starr
813 views
4
Sex Worker Open University 2011
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
832 views
3
Remember the Living: Monica Forrester on Sisters in Spirit and Indigenous Sex Workers
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
812 views
2
Global Sex Workers on the March!
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
756 views
5
Advocating in Albany: No Condoms As Evidence
Action Documentary
,
Screened 2013
874 views
3
Sex Workers and Allies Protest Efforts to Shut Down Backpage
Event Documentary
,
PJ Starr
869 views
1
FIRST Community Forum, Pt. 2 of 4 – Julie Ham
Web Source
,
Panel
560 views
1
Sisonke marches against police brutality
Action Documentary
,
Web Source
627 views
1
Former Sex Workers and Advocates Talk about Condom Use
Documentary
,
Web Source
559 views
0
Protest for France Sex Workers
Documentary
,
Web Source
934 views
1
Caught Between the Tiger and the Crocodile: Trailer
Documentary
,
Screened 2011
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
798 views
6
Sex, Drugs and Student Loans (trailer)
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
1,064 views
4
Indian sex workers fight for their rights
Documentary
,
Web Source
662 views
2
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2011
1,011 views
3
The RighT Guide (Sex Workers Rights) – Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
723 views
3
You Must Know About Me: Rights Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Screened 2011
739 views
2
Creative Trafficking, a short film Operation Snatch created for Les Demimondes
Comedy
,
Screened 2013
940 views
4
Sex on Wheels
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,009 views
2
Nothing About Us Without Us
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
794 views
2
Booking with a sex worker in a Decriminalised state.
Animation
,
Comedy
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
710 views
1
Journey Women: Reflections on the Survival Sex Trade
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
797 views
2
Every Ho I Know Says So
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
833 views
4
Titty Fuck Me
Comedy
,
Music Video
,
Screened 2011
939 views
2
Sex Workers WANT to Stop Trafficking
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
697 views
2
Sex Workers World Cup
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
997 views
3
Red Lips: Cages For Black Girls
Experimental
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
806 views
4
Rights Not Rescue
Screened 2011
,
Open Society Foundations
734 views
2
A Day in Her Life
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
839 views
1
Torn (trailer)
Screened 2011
,
PJ Starr
865 views
2
Recommendation 86
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
,
PJ Starr
1,070 views
2
Sex Workers Rights are Human Rights
Media Message
,
Web Source
591 views
1
Working Girl Blues
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
844 views
2
On Transparency in Activism: Why Being Anti-Craigslist is Anti-Justice
Media Message
,
Graphic presentation
,
Web Source
539 views
0
Cinema Of Desire
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2009
864 views
2
Sex workers do harm reduction: II
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
PJ Starr
773 views
4
Tranny Talk with Kitty Kastro -Sex Worker Fest Promo
Music Video
,
Screened 2009
814 views
2
Interview: Laxsmi Tripathi, hijra & sex worker rights activist
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
571 views
1
Happy Endings
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2009
837 views
2
Sadie Lune “I Want You” at Museum of Modern Art
Comedy
,
Performance Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
905 views
3
Turning A Corner (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
844 views
3
“En El Fuego” In The Fire (Excerpt)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
869 views
3
A Safer Sex Trade (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
819 views
3
Beyond The Barbed Wire: Sex Workers In India Help Fight Sex Trafficking
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
873 views
2
Caught between the tiger and the crocodile (full)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
760 views
3
Burn Out: Sex Worker Rights Music Video with Courtney Trouble
Music Video
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
813 views
3
Zinda Lash
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2009
1,001 views
2
Transgenders Life
Screened 2009
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
740 views
3
The Making of Gigi (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
,
PJ Starr
789 views
2
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (10 min English excerpt)
Action Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2007
1,110 views
2
Legalization Sucks! Decriminalize Now (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
817 views
2
Measure Q: Sex Workers Outreach Project, A History
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
778 views
2
Street Survivor
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2007
833 views
3
International Sex Workers Rights Day- The Origin
Action Documentary
,
Screened 2007
787 views
2
Otras Vias (Other Ways)
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2007
971 views
2
Ni Coupables, Ni Victimes
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
881 views
3
Sorry Your Grandma Was Mugged But I Was Busy Arresting A Hooker
Comedy
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
864 views
2
Taking the Pledge
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
933 views
2
Somaly Uh Uh- Bad Rehab
Music Video
,
Screened 2011
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
848 views
2
Condoms as Evidence
Animation
,
Screened 2011
,
Open Society Foundations
776 views
2
Prostitution Decriminalization in New Zealand by Robyn Few
Documentary
,
Screened 2005
712 views
3
Lap Dance Blues
Comedy
,
Screened 2005
1,401 views
2
The Naked Feminist: A Documentary Film
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2005
1,194 views
2
Tales of the Night Fairies
Documentary
,
Screened 2003
743 views
2
I Was a Teenage Prostitute
Profile Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2003
836 views
3
Trading Women
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Web Source
797 views
2
Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes
Screened 2001
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
784 views
3
Making Invisible Invincible by I. Swirnoff Featuring C Dunye
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
691 views
2
Texas Taliban (or Vice)
Feature
,
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2001
730 views
3
Screaming Queens – The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
Action Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2001
796 views
1
For Love or Money
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
862 views
2
Big Girls: Big Beautiful Women in the Adult Entertainment Industry
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2001
2,705 views
4
Whore on Whore (1995) by Victoria Schneider
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
892 views
1
Breathe by Joseph Saito
Animation
,
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
663 views
1
A Gram O’ Pussy with Duran Ruiz
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
1,140 views
3
Amores de Rua (Street Lovers)
Documentary
,
Screened 2001
795 views
0
Unyielding Conditioning by Sylvain White & Tamika Miller
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
779 views
2
Sex Flesh in Blood
Experimental
,
Explicit
,
Horror-SciFi
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2001
1,367 views
2
Free Whores
Music Video
,
Screened 2001
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
894 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
1,007 views
1
Sacrifice (trailer)
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
851 views
1
WADD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN C. HOLMES
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
809 views
1
The Fall of Communism as seen in Gay Pornography
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
743 views
2
The Salt Mines (clip)
Documentary
,
Screened 1999
886 views
1
Straight for The Money (trailer)
Interview Documentary
,
Screened 1999
861 views
0
Gun for Jennifer (trailer)
Feature
,
Horror-SciFi
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
760 views
0
Cotton Candy
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
1,013 views
0
In South Africa, Sex Workers Arm Themselves with the Law
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
1,574 views
1
How Police, Sex Workers, and People Who Use Drugs Are Joining Forces to Prevent HIV
Open Society Foundations
631 views
1
Safe Sex Slut
Music Video
,
Screened 1999
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
867 views
1
Yes Means Yes by Dee Dee Russell
Narrative
,
Screened 1999
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
811 views
1
Prostitution Free Zone
Documentary
,
PJ Starr
872 views
2
Cambodia’s New anti-trafficking law: Sex Workers speak out
Documentary
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
717 views
3
Mother’s Mink
Comedy
,
Web Source
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
965 views
3
SEX WORK IN NEW ZEALAND: The Decriminalization Model
Documentary
,
Sex Worker's Films Database
715 views
1
Bought and Sold
Web Source
732 views
1
How Police Can Arrest the Spread of HIV
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
703 views
1
Trafficking: new slave trade or moral panic?
Panel
667 views
2
Isabel The Witness: Police Officers Commit Crimes Against Sex Workers in Niterói
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
News, interviews
748 views
1
BBC Trafficking Debate in Luxor with Laura Agustín
Web Source
759 views
2
Just Sign on The Dotted Line- The Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
948 views
3
The Honeybringer: Stories from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Sex Worker Open University
730 views
1
Red Umbrella Diaries (trailer)
Performance Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Red Umbrella Project
764 views
1
Where is the Justice- Sex Work in Hungary
Documentary
,
Web Source
779 views
0
Empower, Thailand- Women’s House Productions
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
888 views
2
Message from Kolkata
Media Message
,
Sex Worker Open University
854 views
2
Under The Red Umbrella
Listing Only
,
Sex Worker Open University
814 views
2
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California, narrated by Angela Davis
Documentary
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
823 views
3
Common Life (from Turkey)
Documentary
,
Web Source
787 views
3
Pye Jakobsson: A Swedish sexworker on the criminalization of clients
Web Source
,
News, interviews
796 views
3
Prowling By Night by Gwendolyn
Experimental
,
Animation
,
Listing Only
655 views
1
Party Girl
Listing Only
,
Sex Worker's Films Database
848 views
1
Putes en lutte / Whores Fight Back
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Sex Worker Open University
800 views
2
