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FICEB ’07 15th International Erotic Film Festival Barcelona
by Phatfil
phatfil - 2007. October 11., 20:11
The shock news from this years show must be that after 10 years at the La Farga Exhibition Hall in L’Hospitalet, FICEB must find a new venue. It seems that the Mayor does not want his city being associated with the porn industry! There are no religious or women’s groups campaigning outside, the local media actively promotes and supports the event and posters for the event are happily displayed in local shops. “20 Minutos” the morning free paper had a front page picture and article about the show in its Thursday edition. The mix of visitors contains women, (over 100,000 since the first show in 1992), couples of all ages as well as single guys and this year they were expecting 60,000 people over the five days of the festival so they must be doing something right. The Director of the very first festival back in 1992, Jose Maria Ponce is now spokesman for the festival along with actress Anastasia Mayo.
As well as being a big public event, FICEB is a major item on the calendar for the porn industry, attracting distributors, production companies and actors from Europe and America. Rocco Siffredi chose FICEB for the opening of his new high budget feature “Furious Fuckers”. There was a tribute to Nacho Vidal one of Rocco’s former pupils now director and producer. Woodman Entertainment were present screening “The Perfectionist part 1” as well as giving people the opportunity to watch Pierre in action with the camera. IFG, International Film Group once again hosted performances on the main stage from superstars such as Yasmine, Katsumi and Rita Faltoyano. Across the back wall of the hall three large stages provided great shows from some famous names. Negro Y Azul, a large Spanish distributor whose clients include Savanna Samson also had Bambola from Italy and Tera Bond. They have been in the adult business for 30 years and this is the first time in 5 years that they have been at FICEB. X Canal, a big producer for TV and internet were back at the show after missing 2006 with some very raunchy Spanish girls like Elizabeth Hamilton. Completing the line up were Stars and Stamps who are the company behind Lucia Lapiedra and who had some of the biggest names in the business on their stand: Angel Dark, Tara White, Jennifer Stone and Belladonna who was not performing on stage unfortunately. Once again Thagson, a Barcelona based production company had a big presence with Sophie Evans hosting many of the stage shows, she has a 1 year contract with them and has been back in action which must please her many fans.
FICEB 07 seemed to be back to its full strength after what seemed to me as a regular visitor to have been a smaller show in 2006. The exhibitors put on some great performances with some very hot sex and the number of stages was as many as I can remember seeing, this year in the main hall area there were 60 stands. With the Club Bizarre S n M area and Heat Gay there really is something for everyone.
We will have to wait for the announcement of the new venue but it is clear that the FICEB brand and organisation is strong and healthy. Three new events are happening this year, Euskalsex in Bilbao, Sexy 07 in the Algarve and FICEBA, the Buenos Aires festival in Argentina.
Day 1
As usual on the first day, student day, there are less crowds and it is easier to get round the stands to see who is here. At the stand of Melany Moore from Italy I found Asha Bliss from Slovakia, Alina Plugaru from Romania, Chanel 27 from Estonia, Angel Thay of Thailand and Symba and Vicky Versace as well as Melany Moore herself. Also here were some very talented carpenters making erotic furniture with huge penises for your lady to sit on! Some of these girls were to feature later on the Woodman Entertainment stand.
Wandering around the show I found Roberto Malone who told me his new movie should be released early in 2008 and managed to chat with Olivier Sanchez the super stud of Porn Week and many Private films. I spoke to Kemaco Studio from France who are big providers and Internet operators under the MMM100.net brand, it is their first time at the festival. The IFG stage shows got under way and included Sonya Baby again trying to break records for pussy capacity; today it was for the longest string of pearls. Others were the most dried flower petals, most litres of milk inserted and squirted and longest string of flags. That girl has a lot of storage space and patience, it must take hours to shove it all inside! Two of Kovi’s girls were here too, Roxy and Jessica Moore who looked very sexy in her glasses!
On the NYA stage Bambola gave a very hot dildo routine followed by the first appearance at FICEB of Savanna Samson. Russian girl Nika and Spanish girls Diana and Bulma Rey signed photos.
At Erotikmodels.se which is run by Soraya Rico and Martin Morro there were some very hot shows on the stage including full sex, lesbian and solo shows. They provide content for others, run their own web site and have a partnership with the Brill Babes agency in Budapest. Soraya herself is very sexy and Anna One and David de Morales really get it on. A sexy Romanian girl called Crystal Cryon performed here and for Pierre Woodman at his stand.
As for Mr. Woodman, he had the lovely Czech trio of Divinity Love, Nessa Devil and Caylian Curtis on his stand; they were only signing and posing but looked great. Gabriella Tchekan was here too and over the festival lots of major players in the industry came by to visit one of porn’s top men.
Day 2
As the week advances more of the famous names arrive, the crowds get bigger and the performances get hotter. Sasha Grey a tiny American girl with a nice hairy triangle got livelier and used some stage blood to wipe over herself on stage…blood sports? As we would find tomorrow out she really enjoyed herself up on the IFG stage. At Woodman Entertainment Mike Angelo got Crystal Cryon squirting as Pierre filmed and a large crowd gathered round to watch him at work.
Hot wax was to play a big role over at the Channel 69 stage, first Heidi Dark used the candles to drip over herself then Barbara Vamp and the heavily tattooed Silvia Rubi performed a dynamic show with candles and dildos.
Prowling around the hall were the Mystery Man, all in black and masked and his dwarf accomplices. Wherever they went they tried to touch women up and also appeared on stage, firstly getting Dunia Montenegro squirting with some serious masturbation and then performing a “Sperm Washing” scene with Gigi Love getting covered in milk. All very strange but not unusual at FICEB!
Day 3
Like many of the erotic festivals there are lots of stands selling sex toys, fetish and sexy clothing, DVD’s, art and internet subscriptions. New technology features highly at FICEB with 3oooh Mobile Entertainment demonstrating Mooobile, Spain’s first 3G adult videochat with huge potential, there are already over 2 million phones capable of receiving the service.
Katsumi and Silvia Saint arrived today as did Kovi who posed with his girls at the IFG backstage area. On stage, Sasha Grey gave one of the most unusual performances seen here in a long time on the big stage. As she walked on she had an empty cup, why we wondered? We soon found out as she filled it with ‘natural champagne’ drank it then spat it out towards the crowd, covering some of the photographers, me included!
Large crowds gathered to get autographs from Silvia Saint and the big stars Yasmine Katsumi and Rita Faltoyano performed on the main stage. As the evening wears on Luca Damiano the Italian producer takes over the main stage for a casting session with Natasha Kiss. Today she was joined by Heidi and Bianca who took on 5 or 6 guys from the audience. The idea is to try and find new porn stars for the future as well as doing a good show and these boys delivered. These sessions have been a feature at FICEB for many years and used to star Lolly Pop from Italy.
Day 4
Saturday is the busiest day for public visitors to the show and can get very crowded making it hard to walk around as they surge from one stage show to the next. Stands that have been quite now have performances although I could not find anybody at the Tanya Tanya stand all week. This was a disappointment as last year they had some very hot shows from Tanya herself and Ultra, another hot Russian girl. Talking of Russians, Nikka at NYA was on stage and you could see that she used to be a classically trained dancer before getting in to the business, very graceful girl.
Another visit was made to Woodman Entertainment to get some more shots of Pierre and the girls and as usual a large crowd gathered as I took the shots. He really is a popular figure with the visitors and one guy was having some of Pierre’s early DVD’s signed. Earlier in the week I had given him a photo from FICEB 05 back in 1997 taken when he was establishing his style at Private.
I had kept missing Angel Dark’s performance at Stars and Stamps and was getting worried I might not get any shots. As I was about to leave she went on stage and thanks to Fernando I got onto the stand and was able to take a few photos. I also stumbled across the Hungarian actor Lauro Giotto backstage who was happy to pose for Machomedia. Unfortunately I had to leave for the airport at this stage still wanting more shots of the girls I had missed but I guess that will have to wait until next year’s FICEB, wherever that may be!
Pictures will be uploaded soon!
