Where: NYC LGBT Community Center, 208 W.13th St, NYC, 10011
When: January 23, Reception at 6:30PM, Screening at 7:30PM
Cost: $8 in advance, $10 at the door
Director Tony Comstock will be present
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Lesbian Cinema Arts will present a one night only screening of Ashley and Kisha: Finding the Right Fit, Friday evening, January 23, at the New York City LGBT Community Center.
“American filmmaker and sex on screen pioneer Tony Comstock may have invented the best little documentary formula ever: take a couple who are in a committed, loving relationship, and film them in conversation about it, and also the physical conversation they have with each other during sex. What could be more illuminating, educational, erotic, instructive, profound, fascinating, – take your pick. Ashley & Kisha is one of the sweetest love stories you’re ever likely to see committed to film. Tony Comstock has once again put his perfect documentary formula to good use – true love and real sex – on screen; what’s not to like?!” –– Megan Spencer, Film Critic
Ashley and Kisha is the fifth in director Tony Comstock’s award-winning “Real People, Real Life, Real Sex” documentary series. Comstock’s approach to sex, cinema, and love is both disarmingly charming, winning over audiences where ever his films play, and surprisingly controversial, drawing the ire of censors who seem to be mesmerized by the glistening body parts, while remaining stubbornly resistant to the films’ overarching theme of the nourishing power and beauty of sexual love.
Ashley and Kisha was to have had its world premiere at the 2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, in Melbourne Australia, but the screening was cancelled when the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification refused to grant MUFF a festival exemption, and ordered police dispatched to the festival to prevent the film from being shown. A private screening for festival judges resulted in Ashley and Kisha being named Best Foreign Film, and Tony Comstock being named Best Foreign Director.
After the Australian controversy, Ashley and Kisha finally had it’s world premiere at the 2007 Long Beach International LGBT Film Festival in Long Beach, CA, where the film was enthusiastically received by an overflow crowd. From there it travelled to the 2007 Out on Film Atlanta LGBT Film Festival where it again played to a full house. Most recently Ashley and Kisha played as a double feature with Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together at the 2008 Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, but this New York date marks the first time director Tony Comstock will be present for a screening.
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Tony Comstock has been a filmmaker for more than 15 years; produced films on three continents; screened and won awards on four. Topics addressed in his films have included: faith, human rights, disaster relief, and social justice. Most recently he has devoted his energy an to ongoing documentary series subtitled “Real people, Real life, Real sex.” The series addresses issues of sexuality, sexual imagery, censorship, alternative distribution and promotion, and love.
His latest film Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless (2008) celebrates erotic love in the second half of life, and will have its US Premiere at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in a special screening for faculty and clinicians.