Private Project

Catboy

Who hasn't fantasized about being brave enough to parade naked and free on a catwalk and still feel sexy? Without fear of being too masculine or too feminine. Marc craves to feel just that.

After scrolling through openly racist and femmephobic profiles and bios on a gay dating app, Marc gets a message from his friend Cacao who invites him to join her at a ballroom. Feeling like there’s no space for him in the dating scene as a racialized person, he decides to go.

Across the crowded room, he meets the attractive Leo, a contestant in the Catboy Sex Siren category he can’t stop staring at. Encouraged by his friend, Marc joins Leo on the catwalk, where they share a strong chemistry that doesn't go unnoticed—Marc will fall in love with such a vibrant community: a space for political protest and celebration that finally gives him the space he deserves.

  • Xaho
    Director
  • Erika Lust Films
    Producer
  • Panterino
    Key Cast
  • Javier Des Leon
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Gay
  • Runtime:
    31 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Xaho

Erika Lust is an award-winning indie erotic filmmaker who creates sex-positive adult cinema by portraying relatable characters and realistic hot sex, going beyond gender stereotypes and harmful fetishisations to offer a groundbreaking alternative to mass-produced mainstream porn. Over the past 20 years, the Lust brand has gone from strength to strength. Erika has directed 6 feature films and series, over 130 short films, and produced around 150 more.

In 2015, Erika gave her essential TEDx talk 'It’s Time for Porn to Change'. Her story was featured in the Netflix documentary series 'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (“Women on Top”)', directed by Rashida Jones, and 'Principles of Pleasure', directed by Niharika Desai. In 2019, Erika was named one of the BBC 100 Women’s most influential women of the year. In 2022, her alternative vision of porn was featured in The New York Times and in the BBC Three & HULU series 'Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne'. In the same year, she encouraged other adults to have The Porn Conversation with the younger generations in her TEDx Talk in Athens.

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