The Pacific Northwest's biggest, best, and only amateur and locally produced porn festival returns this fall!

For two weekends every year, thousands of people in Seattle and Portland gather to watch porn the old-fashioned way: in a theater, on the big screen, with lots of cheering, hooting, and hollering. Ask anyone who's ever been: There's something magical about HUMP! But before audiences can get HUMP!ed, filmmakers, actors, directors, kinksters, queers, and sex-doers have to get busy making HUMP! films. Entries can be hardcore, softcore, erotica, live-action, animation, gay, straight, bi. Whatever lifts your luggage! (We draw the line at animals, kids, and poop.) All we ask is that your film be no more than five minutes in length and that you get it to us by Friday, October 7. We invite filmmakers to include "extra-credit" items in their films so that audiences know they made 'em just for HUMP! This year's extra-credit items are Super Soakers, duct tape, and the number 7.

HUMP! is completely anonymous. Your HUMP! submission will NOT be released on the web, screenings are no-cell-phone zones, and all copies of the films—all of our copies (filmmakers can and have released their own films online)—are destroyed after the last screening. HUMP! is the dirty little film festival that lets you be a porn star for the weekend, not the rest of your life!

And did we mention prizes?

Best Humor: $1,000 First Prize, $500 Runner-Up

Best Sex: $1,000 First Prize, $500 Runner-Up

Best Kink: $1,000 First Prize, $500 Runner-Up

And...

Best in Show: $4,000 Grand Prize!

All prizes are awarded by audience ballot. A film could win more than one prize, and a single film—perhaps a hilariously kinky film with a scorching-hot sex scene—could sweep the HUMP!™ Awards! It's like the Oscars™ with Orgasms™.

Full details about making and submitting HUMP! films are available at thestranger.com/hump. We can’t wait to see YOUR film!