By Tania Ketenjian

Humpday explores the relationship and boundaries between two male friends and their decision to make a pornographic film together. Filmmaker Lynn Shelton lives in Seattle and there is an amateur pornographic film festival that happens there every year. Once a close friend of hers was visiting, a straight male, and expressed his shock at his attraction to a gay pornographic film. This got Lynn thinking about how men are so often uncomfortable with intimacy, particularly with other men so she wanted to explore this issue further, in a fiction film. The result is Humpday, a film about two heterosexual close male friends who set out to make a pornographic film in which they make love. While the film may seem like it's about pornography and homosexuality, or at least our discomfort around it, it really looks at intimacy, identity, male friendship, love and being true to yourself. Lynn reflects on what she observed when her friend was visiting and reacting to the pornographic film he saw.