DAMON AND HUNTER Rises to the Occasion in New Zealand
Last Wednesday night, a technical glitch prevented the screening of The ‘International Male’ a collection of short films at New Zealand’s Outtakes Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Scrambling to fill the gap, festival organizers offered the audience the choice of LIVING DAY TO DAY or DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER. I’ll let GayNZ.com take it from here:
Murmurings from the largely male audience appeared to agree on showing the ‘Damon and Hunter’ film – a “hard-core love story” which contained explicit sex scenes throughout.
“We told the audience the film was explicit, and to leave the cinema if this kind of thing bothers you,” says the festival volunteer.
“A few people left the cinema at that point, and then I noticed a few leave during the screening.”
Most stayed for the 46-minute documentary showing a male adult-star couple talking about their sex lives. The film ended with a ten-minute explicit sex scene. Many in the remaining audience applauded at the ‘climax’ to the showing.
I remember the audience at Cinekink applauding at the ‘climax’ too. At first I was afraid they were goofing on the film, but within moments I realized the audience was sincere, like an audience cheering when the couple in a romantic comedy finally kisses.
I’m also pleased to see the film written up as having a 10 minute love-scene. In fact, the scene is very nearly 15 minutes long. Always better when people think a film is shorter than it actually is!
No word yet on last night’s official Outtakes screening. Hopefully it went well too!
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 am
Those Kiwi’s are such a democratic bunch aren’t they? This made me squeal and giggle. Also reminded me of how much fun it was to see Damon and Hunter on the big screen here last year…sweet, tender and ten foot cocks, what’s not to applaud about!