Creative Scotland is investigating a decision to award almost £85,000 of public funds to a film project involving explicit sex scenes.In the January round of the public arts body’s National Lottery Open Fund, £84,555 was awarded to director Leonie Rae Gasson for the Rein development.
The projects website describes it as a 45-minute art installation which pays those who take part a fee of £270 per day to take part in “non-simulated” sex, including “hardcore” acts.
The recruitment advert states actors must be over the age of 18, with those with previous sex work experience – “particularly in porn contexts” – encouraged to apply.
The public funding allocation has come under fire, particularly at a time the arts sector struggles to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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