The Stranger

The Stranger is proud to announce HUMP! 5, the Pacific Northwest’s biggest, best, and only amateur (and locally produced) porn festival. HUMP! 5 goes down October 9–10, 2009, at On the Boards.

Questions? hump@thestranger.com

CASH PRIZES: HUMP! isn’t just about love and sex and laughs. HUMP! is also about cash prizes. There are two award categories in HUMP!—Humor and Hot—and a $2,000 first-place prize is awarded in both categories. (The winners are determined by audience vote.) We will also award a $500 second-place prize and a $250 third-place prize in both categories.

EXTRA CREDIT! We ask HUMP! filmmakers to use certain props and to shoot at certain locations so that audiences will know when they’re watching something made just for HUMP! This year’s extra-credit props: a pink slip (layoff or undergarment), Mormon undergarments, motorcycle boots, e-stim unit, Aplets & Cotlets. This year’s extra-credit locations: the SLUT, the P-I globe, the Statue of Liberty at Alki Beach, the giant mitt outside Safeco Field. Filmmakers are not required to use extra-credit props or locations, and not using them doesn’t count against them with the HUMP! jury.

STUFF THE HUMP! JURY WOULD LIKE TO SEE: Fem-domme action, CFNM, pegging. Including these themes doesn't get films into HUMP! automatically, but it gives them a serious leg up. There have been lots of films featuring tied up and/or submissive women over the last couple of years—not that there’s anything wrong with that—but turnabout is fair play, and the HUMP! jury is hoping to see some women on top this year.

NEW TO HUMP!? HUMP! is safe, fun, and anonymous. People make films and give them to us; we make only two screening copies and return the originals. Our only copies are destroyed live onstage after the final screening. We’ve hosted DOZENS and DOZENS of HUMP! screenings over the last four years, with ZERO leaks! HUMP! lets you be a porn star for a weekend—not for life! And HUMP! films do not have to be hardcore. Animation, instructional videos, mechanical dogs, and sexy, nonexplicit shorts have all been featured in HUMP!

Buy Tickets

Buy your Tickets for HUMP! now. HUMP! goes on October 9-10 at On the Boards.

A Few Tickets Left!

• Friday at Noon: Tickets available at the door
• Friday at 2pm SOLD OUT
• Friday at 4pm SOLD OUT
• Friday at 6pm SOLD OUT
• Friday at 8pm SOLD OUT
• Friday at 10pm SOLD OUT
• Friday at Midnight SOLD OUT
• Saturday at Noon SOLD OUT
• Saturday at 2pm SOLD OUT
• Saturday at 4pm SOLD OUT
• Saturday at 6pm SOLD OUT
• Saturday at 8pm SOLD OUT
• Saturday at 10pm SOLD OUT

Extra Credit

A jury of local sex experts, sex-positive film critics, and sex-obsessed porn fans select HUMP! entries for inclusion in the festival. We look for hotness and humor-films don't have to be slick, just hot and/or funny-and entries that are made especially for HUMP! are likelier to make the cut. To prove that filmmakers made their film just for HUMP!, they were invited to include one or more of these props and/or locations in their HUMP! submissions:

PROPS

• a pink slip (layoff or undergarment)
• motorcycle boots
• Mormon undergarments
• e-stim unit
• Aplets & Cotlets


LOCATIONS

• the SLUT
• the P-I globe
• the Statue of Liberty at Alki Beach
• the giant mitt outside Safeco Field

Extra-extra credit for any film that uses all of the above. No one was obligated to include this silly crap in their films.