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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
503 views
1
Railroad Allstars- Las Estrellas de la Línea
Feature
,
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2007
626 views
1
AI Turkey – What is your occupation?
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
628 views
2
Sex in Strange Places – Turkey (ISIS – Sex Workers) w/ Stacey Dooley
Documentary
,
Web Source
849 views
1
Human Rights for Sex Workers from Amnesty International
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
644 views
3
MAJOR! official trailer
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Web Source
623 views
6
Tenofivir Trial in Cambodia (sex workers resist) APNSW, WNU NSWP
Documentary
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
885 views
2
Sex Workers Against the Tide
Media Message
,
Web Source
856 views
1
The High Cost of Cheap Clothes (Vice News)
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
856 views
3
Sex Workers in Europe, ICRSE Conference- 2005 Brussels
Event Documentary
,
Screened 2007
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
807 views
3
December 17th
Narrative
,
Listing Only
967 views
3
Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future
493 views
1
La Revolte des Prostituees / The Prostitutes Revolt
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Radio-Audio
,
Web Source
912 views
5
We are all humans. We are all equal
Music Video
,
Web Source
557 views
1
Shit They Say To Sexworkers
Comedy
,
Web Source
900 views
4
Soho Trot
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
1,043 views
4
Decriminalise Sex Work Now!
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
835 views
2
The Whore Stigma with Margo St. James and Gail Pheterson
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
950 views
4
Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer “Elisa Martínez”, AC
Profile Documentary
,
Web Source
746 views
1
The Politics of Sex: Love Me Want Me Rent Me
Profile Documentary
,
Web Source
1,461 views
4
December 17th, Kırmızı Şemsiye, Turkey
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
1,055 views
3
MWILI WANGU, CHAUO LANGU – My Body, My Choice
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
941 views
2
Sex Workers Demand
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
639 views
1
Becky’s Journey
Documentary
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2015
928 views
2
Mistress May I?
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,250 views
4
Roxanne
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
1,417 views
4
Born Into Porn
Feature
,
Interview Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2015
2,255 views
5
Save Us From Saviours
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,261 views
3
We Are Foot Soldiers
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
977 views
4
Doin’ It For Themselves (the Hunt Sisters)
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
913 views
3
Being a Refugee is Hard by Muchaneta with SWEAT
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
900 views
4
Molly Crabapple: How police profile and shame sex workers
Experimental
,
Animation
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
939 views
4
I’m a sex worker (from Peru)
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
1,185 views
4
Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival Trailer 2015
Music Video
,
Screened 2015
926 views
4
Making Sex Work
Interview Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,035 views
5
Community Voices: J’s Voice
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
909 views
6
Breaking The Law by SWAG
Media Message
,
Music Video
,
Narrative
,
Screened 2015
914 views
4
New Jersey Sex Workers Speak Out
Event Documentary
,
Screened 2015
914 views
5
Jasmine and Dora 4-Ever
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,179 views
5
The Malak
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,012 views
5
Ecosexual Feast
Explicit
,
Screened 2015
1,066 views
3
Sex workers are the solution, not the problem
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
,
Sex Worker Open University
922 views
4
Star-Star presents 17th December 2013
Music Video
,
Health Rights Video Library
796 views
2
Decriminalisation of Sex Work in New Zealand
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
,
Health Rights Video Library
815 views
3
The Street in Red
Documentary
,
Screened 2015
1,104 views
5
Power of the collective
Media Message
,
Screened 2015
885 views
5
Becoming Belle Knox
Web Source
,
News, interviews
914 views
2
Lovebirds
Explicit
,
Documentary
,
Web Source
818 views
1
Pay It No Mind – The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
1,125 views
5
Transsexual Dominitrix with Shawna Virago
Comedy
,
Music Video
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
903 views
3
Gabriela Leite: Politics and prostitution in Brazil
448 views
1
American Courtesans
Interview Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
966 views
4
Stripper Damage
Comedy
,
Screened 2013
1,284 views
3
(Sex Workers Cry) Rights Not Rescue in Cambodia
Documentary
,
Web Source
811 views
0
San Francisco Sex Worker Fest Trailer 2013
Media Message
,
Music Video
,
Screened 2013
889 views
3
HOPS: Promoting Sex Worker Rights in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
943 views
2
You Must Know About Me: Rights Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Health Rights Video Library
786 views
1
Sex Worker Violence Prevention
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
652 views
2
Tánc az erőszak ellen- Dance Against Violence
Music Video
,
Screened 2013
1,166 views
5
Scarlet Road (trailer)
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
1,145 views
2
Last Rescue in Siam
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Screened 2013
1,289 views
2
Lot Lizard
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2013
2,117 views
3
Normal- Real Stories (trailer)
Feature
,
Screened 2013
1,066 views
4
one whore
Music Video
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
877 views
4
A Kiss for Gabriela (source interview)
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
980 views
4
Fragments of Ava
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,198 views
4
Ticket to Paradise
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,328 views
4
Equal Rights
Media Message
,
Screened 2013
1,324 views
1
Nada
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
2,355 views
4
Rescue is Violence
Animation
,
Screened 2013
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
910 views
1
Sex Work in The Netherlands – Licia Brussa
Documentary
,
Web Source
636 views
1
WHORE LOGIC (Excerpt 5 mins)
Performance Documentary
,
Screened 2013
,
PJ Starr
916 views
4
Sex Worker Open University 2011
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
959 views
3
Remember the Living: Monica Forrester on Sisters in Spirit and Indigenous Sex Workers
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2013
909 views
2
Global Sex Workers on the March!
Documentary
,
Screened 2013
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
872 views
5
Advocating in Albany: No Condoms As Evidence
Action Documentary
,
Screened 2013
985 views
3
Sex Workers and Allies Protest Efforts to Shut Down Backpage
Event Documentary
,
PJ Starr
968 views
1
FIRST Community Forum, Pt. 2 of 4 – Julie Ham
Web Source
,
Panel
647 views
1
Sisonke marches against police brutality
Action Documentary
,
Web Source
716 views
1
Former Sex Workers and Advocates Talk about Condom Use
Documentary
,
Web Source
668 views
0
Protest for France Sex Workers
Documentary
,
Web Source
1,197 views
1
Caught Between the Tiger and the Crocodile: Trailer
Documentary
,
Screened 2011
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
891 views
6
Sex, Drugs and Student Loans (trailer)
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
1,200 views
4
Indian sex workers fight for their rights
Documentary
,
Web Source
777 views
2
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2011
1,122 views
3
The RighT Guide (Sex Workers Rights) – Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
826 views
3
You Must Know About Me: Rights Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia
Documentary
,
Screened 2011
825 views
2
Creative Trafficking, a short film Operation Snatch created for Les Demimondes
Comedy
,
Screened 2013
1,056 views
4
Sex on Wheels
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2013
1,132 views
2
Nothing About Us Without Us
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
902 views
2
Booking with a sex worker in a Decriminalised state.
Animation
,
Comedy
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
844 views
1
Journey Women: Reflections on the Survival Sex Trade
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
904 views
2
Every Ho I Know Says So
Documentary
,
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
936 views
4
Titty Fuck Me
Comedy
,
Music Video
,
Screened 2011
1,049 views
2
Sex Workers WANT to Stop Trafficking
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
790 views
2
Sex Workers World Cup
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
1,123 views
3
Red Lips: Cages For Black Girls
Experimental
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
936 views
4
Rights Not Rescue
Screened 2011
,
Open Society Foundations
820 views
2
A Day in Her Life
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
960 views
1
Torn (trailer)
Screened 2011
,
PJ Starr
986 views
2
Recommendation 86
Media Message
,
Screened 2011
,
PJ Starr
1,179 views
2
Sex Workers Rights are Human Rights
Media Message
,
Web Source
709 views
1
Working Girl Blues
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2011
959 views
2
On Transparency in Activism: Why Being Anti-Craigslist is Anti-Justice
Media Message
,
Graphic presentation
,
Web Source
643 views
0
Cinema Of Desire
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2009
988 views
2
Sex workers do harm reduction: II
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
PJ Starr
883 views
4
Tranny Talk with Kitty Kastro -Sex Worker Fest Promo
Music Video
,
Screened 2009
917 views
2
Interview: Laxsmi Tripathi, hijra & sex worker rights activist
Interview Documentary
,
Web Source
708 views
1
Happy Endings
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2009
967 views
2
Sadie Lune “I Want You” at Museum of Modern Art
Comedy
,
Performance Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,024 views
3
Turning A Corner (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
953 views
3
“En El Fuego” In The Fire (Excerpt)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
984 views
3
A Safer Sex Trade (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
916 views
3
Beyond The Barbed Wire: Sex Workers In India Help Fight Sex Trafficking
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
967 views
2
Caught between the tiger and the crocodile (full)
Documentary
,
Screened 2009
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
862 views
3
Burn Out: Sex Worker Rights Music Video with Courtney Trouble
Music Video
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
922 views
3
Zinda Lash
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2009
1,144 views
2
Transgenders Life
Screened 2009
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
842 views
3
The Making of Gigi (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
,
PJ Starr
901 views
2
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (10 min English excerpt)
Action Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2007
1,241 views
2
Legalization Sucks! Decriminalize Now (trailer)
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
933 views
2
Measure Q: Sex Workers Outreach Project, A History
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
882 views
2
Street Survivor
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2007
959 views
3
International Sex Workers Rights Day- The Origin
Action Documentary
,
Screened 2007
894 views
2
Otras Vias (Other Ways)
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2007
1,100 views
2
Ni Coupables, Ni Victimes
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
1,003 views
3
Sorry Your Grandma Was Mugged But I Was Busy Arresting A Hooker
Comedy
,
Screened 2009
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
968 views
2
Taking the Pledge
Documentary
,
Screened 2007
1,050 views
2
Somaly Uh Uh- Bad Rehab
Music Video
,
Screened 2011
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
972 views
2
Condoms as Evidence
Animation
,
Screened 2011
,
Open Society Foundations
870 views
2
Prostitution Decriminalization in New Zealand by Robyn Few
Documentary
,
Screened 2005
821 views
3
Lap Dance Blues
Comedy
,
Screened 2005
1,568 views
2
The Naked Feminist: A Documentary Film
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2005
1,362 views
2
Tales of the Night Fairies
Documentary
,
Screened 2003
836 views
2
I Was a Teenage Prostitute
Profile Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2003
950 views
3
Trading Women
Feature
,
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Web Source
913 views
2
Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes
Screened 2001
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
907 views
3
Making Invisible Invincible by I. Swirnoff Featuring C Dunye
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
774 views
2
Texas Taliban (or Vice)
Feature
,
Comedy
,
Narrative
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2001
845 views
3
Screaming Queens – The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
Action Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 2001
919 views
1
For Love or Money
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
991 views
2
Big Girls: Big Beautiful Women in the Adult Entertainment Industry
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2001
3,334 views
5
Whore on Whore (1995) by Victoria Schneider
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
1,004 views
1
Breathe by Joseph Saito
Animation
,
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
736 views
1
A Gram O’ Pussy with Duran Ruiz
Documentary
,
Profile Documentary
,
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
1,278 views
3
Amores de Rua (Street Lovers)
Documentary
,
Screened 2001
888 views
0
Unyielding Conditioning by Sylvain White & Tamika Miller
Screened 2001
,
Alexandra Juhasz
887 views
2
Sex Flesh in Blood
Experimental
,
Explicit
,
Horror-SciFi
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 2001
1,554 views
2
Free Whores
Music Video
,
Screened 2001
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,018 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
1,143 views
1
Sacrifice (trailer)
Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
978 views
1
WADD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN C. HOLMES
Profile Documentary
,
Trailer or Excerpt
,
Screened 1999
917 views
1
The Fall of Communism as seen in Gay Pornography
Experimental
,
Documentary
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
873 views
2
The Salt Mines (clip)
Documentary
,
Screened 1999
993 views
1
Straight for The Money (trailer)
Interview Documentary
,
Screened 1999
978 views
0
Gun for Jennifer (trailer)
Feature
,
Horror-SciFi
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
854 views
0
Cotton Candy
Narrative
,
Listing Only
,
Screened 1999
1,147 views
0
In South Africa, Sex Workers Arm Themselves with the Law
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
2,075 views
2
How Police, Sex Workers, and People Who Use Drugs Are Joining Forces to Prevent HIV
Open Society Foundations
710 views
1
Safe Sex Slut
Music Video
,
Screened 1999
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
976 views
1
Yes Means Yes by Dee Dee Russell
Narrative
,
Screened 1999
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
922 views
1
Prostitution Free Zone
Documentary
,
PJ Starr
988 views
2
Cambodia’s New anti-trafficking law: Sex Workers speak out
Documentary
,
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
809 views
3
Mother’s Mink
Comedy
,
Web Source
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,092 views
3
SEX WORK IN NEW ZEALAND: The Decriminalization Model
Documentary
,
Sex Worker's Films Database
815 views
1
Bought and Sold
Web Source
832 views
1
How Police Can Arrest the Spread of HIV
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Open Society Foundations
808 views
1
Trafficking: new slave trade or moral panic?
Panel
750 views
2
Isabel The Witness: Police Officers Commit Crimes Against Sex Workers in Niterói
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
News, interviews
848 views
1
BBC Trafficking Debate in Luxor with Laura Agustín
Web Source
864 views
2
Just Sign on The Dotted Line- The Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
1,045 views
3
The Honeybringer: Stories from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Sex Worker Open University
837 views
1
Red Umbrella Diaries (trailer)
Performance Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Red Umbrella Project
851 views
1
Where is the Justice- Sex Work in Hungary
Documentary
,
Web Source
892 views
0
Empower, Thailand- Women’s House Productions
Experimental
,
Comedy
,
Media Message
,
Web Source
983 views
2
Message from Kolkata
Media Message
,
Sex Worker Open University
951 views
2
Under The Red Umbrella
Listing Only
,
Sex Worker Open University
929 views
2
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California, narrated by Angela Davis
Documentary
,
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot
919 views
3
Common Life (from Turkey)
Documentary
,
Web Source
894 views
3
Pye Jakobsson: A Swedish sexworker on the criminalization of clients
Web Source
,
News, interviews
894 views
3
Prowling By Night by Gwendolyn
Experimental
,
Animation
,
Listing Only
761 views
1
Party Girl
Listing Only
,
Sex Worker's Films Database
959 views
1
Putes en lutte / Whores Fight Back
Documentary
,
Web Source
,
Sex Worker Open University
887 views
2
