Filmmaker in Focus: JENNIFER LYON BELL San Francisco filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell believes that sex is a giant, beautiful, strange, messy, fascinating, fun and thrilling force of nature, not usually captured in the mainstream media’s idea of sex. Bell founded her explicit erotic cinema company Blue Artichoke Films (Amsterdam) to create and collaborate on xxx productions. Her own flavor of adult cinema blurs the genres of documentary, fiction, experimental film, virtual reality, and sex education, as she explores the intensity of longing within sex. Both her filmmaking and her academic/teaching work revolve around the idea of empathy, namely making movies sexy by helping the viewer grow their empathetic connection to the characters. By embracing natural human awkwardness and the unique creativity that partners share during great erotic encounters, Bell’s work evangelizes for a new vision of awesome sex. Film Programm details: TBA Q&A with filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell after the screening and a little surprise!