HUMP! filmmakers are invited to use certain props and shoot at certain locations so that HUMP! audiences will know when they're watching films that were made just for HUMP! This year's extra-credit locations and props:
For Seattle filmmakers: the Pike Place Market sign and clock (location); Seattle Pacific University "SPU" T-shirt (prop/costume); teabag, teabagging, teabagger (prop/sex act/cast member).
For Portland filmmakers: the Hawthorne Bridge (location); Mary's Club T-shirt (prop/costume); teabag, teabagging, teabagger (prop/sex act/cast member).
A 5 min QT file with these settings should be able to burn onto a CD/DVD or fit on a flash drive/stick, if not send an external drive (formatted for MAC).
The film festival that allows you to be a porn star for a weekend—not for life—is back!
The Pacific Northwest's biggest, best, and most beloved amateur-and-locally-produced porn festival returns this fall. HUMP! goes down November 5-6 at On the Boards in Seattle and November 13-14 at Cinema 21 in Portland. The deadline for submissions for HUMP! 2010 is 5:00 p.m. on October 15, 2010.
The Stranger and the HUMP! 2010 jury invite local filmmakers, actors, kinksters, exhibitionists, and notorious sex-havers to get to work on their films for HUMP! 2010. The HUMP! jury is composed of local sex experts (ahem), sex-positive film critics, and sex-obsessed porn fans. The HUMP! jury looks for hotness, humor, and originality. Films do not have to be slick or professionally produced. They do have to be hot or funny or hot and funny.
Films selected for HUMP! are screened over two weekends in Seattle and Portland. The Stranger returns or destroys all copies of the films after the festival. Films are not released on the internet, and all screenings are monitored to prevent bootleg copies of HUMP! films from being made.
NEW PRIZE CATEGORIES: Until now, HUMP! had two grand prizes: a $2,000 prize for Best Humor and a $2,000 prize for Best Hardcore. But some HUMP! audience members complained that the categories were too limiting. How were you supposed to vote if your favorite film wasn't particularly funny or all that hardcore? So this year we've created new prize categories and added more money to the purse:
Prizes will still be awarded by audience ballot. It's possible that a film could win more than one prize and that a single film—perhaps a hilariously kinky film with a scorching-hot sex scene?—could sweep the HUMP! Awards! It's like the Oscars™ with Orgasms™.
Entries can be erotica, hardcore, softcore, live-action, BDSM, animation, gay, straight, bi-- whatever lifts your luggage!
We draw the line at animals, kids and poop. Entries with any of those items will not be considered for HUMP!
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