SEATTLE—Nonprofit organization the Seattle Erotica Cinema Society (SECS) announced its eighth erotic film festival, SECS Fest, to be held November 8-10.
The festival will showcase 36 short films and three features (including two newly restored archival films). The festival will be presented at the Grand Illusion Cinema, in Seattle. Tickets will be available for sale on October 15 at the SECS website.
Organizers have compiled an international selection of films that reflects the diversity of the human sexual experience. Attendees can expect to experience a wide range of genres and sexual representations.
The festival opens with video distribution company Mondo Macabro’s new 4K restoration of director Stephen Sayadian’s art-porn cult classic, Café Flesh (1982). Festival organizers called the movie “one of the strangest, smartest, most daringly original adult films ever made.”
A new 2K restoration of adult movie Roommates (1982), by director Chuck Vincent, will be screened over the weekend. The ensemble cast includes Golden Age adult stars Veronica Hart, Kelly Nichols, Samantha Fox, Jerry Butler, Jamie Gillis, and Jack Wrangler.
Hidden Flora, a 2024 feature directed by Ryan Rox, will also be shown at the fest. Main character Roxii navigates the landscape of trans/queer sexual identity in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in this autobiographical “romantic dra-medy.”
Four short film programs have also been added to the Fest’s schedule, categorized by narrative themes, including Sex101, Dark Fantasy, Old-School/New-School, and Post-Porn.
Individual festival tickets can be purchased for $12, or full festival passes for $70. For more information about the SECS Fest 2024, visit the website. Follow SECS on X and Instagram.
