Mixing Business With Pleasure

With Bush, Ashcroft, et al. surely planning to outlaw fun of any kind, what better way to honor the true "sweet science" than to attend the third San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival? This cinematic celebration of our streetwalkin', hand-jobbin', lap-dancin' pals of several genders covers a refreshingly wide range. For the many fans of expatriate Brazilian tranny ho communities in Italy, there's the fine short doc Travesti.Who knew that the granite-hard siliconed butts and breasts of the film's near-gals are irresistible to almost every straight Italian male? Henrique Goldman's underrated feature Princesa, about an expatriate Brazilian tranny in Italy, of all things, is also on view. More tranny prostitutes, these from Calcutta, appear in the doc Tales of the Night Fairies,though the focus here is more on the straight female whores. It's bracing to see them play kick-ass against corrupt authorities, antiquated laws, and bourgeois Indian feminists desperate to separate themselves from "trashy" sex workers.

Henrique Goldman's Princesa is Pretty Woman all over again -- except the prostitute with the heart of gold is also an expatriate Brazilian tranny.

Details

Friday through Monday, May 23-26

Tickets to individual pictures are $8

Festival passes run $25-50

751-1659

www.bay swan.org

Screenings are at the Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th St. (at Valencia), S.F.; panels and special events take place at various locations

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• Jennifer Blowdryer
• Henrique Goldman
• Calcutta
• Stacy Valentine
• Prostitution and Sex Workers

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