Chicago – Vanniall’s Ships in the Night has been named an official selection of the 2026 BLUSH San Francisco Porn Film Festival, bringing her work as a performer and director into the festival’s online Cruising/Connection program.
Starring Vanniall and Jaq Quicksilver, Ships in the Night is directed by Vanniall and Ashley Lake and will screen August 2 – 16 as part of BLUSH’s online edition. The film appears in the Cruising/Connection block, a curated selection centered on fleeting meetings, deep intimacy and the charged space between encounter and connection.
“Ships in the Night feels very close to the kind of work I want to keep making,” said Vanniall. “It is intimate, intentional and built around the emotional charge of two people finding each other in a specific moment. Being selected by BLUSH means a lot because the festival understands adult film as cinema, as authorship and as a space for connection, not just content.”
The selection continues Vanniall’s growing presence in international adult film spaces as she expands her work across performance, directing and creator-led production through Studio Vanniall.
Online VOD tickets for the 2026 BLUSH San Francisco Porn Film Festival will be available starting August 2 at Blush.PinkLabel.TV.
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ABOUT STUDIO VANNIALL:
Studio Vanniall is a premier production company and subscription website launched by creator Vanniall in 2026. The studio is now booking professional talent through agents for 2026 production dates in Miami, Los Angeles, NYC, Western Massachusetts, Minneapolis, Amsterdam and London.
See: Vanniall to Launch Own Brand Studio Vanniall, Now Booking Talent at AVN
ABOUT VANNIALL:
Vanniall (she/they) is an award-winning trans performer, model, director and content creator originally from South Carolina, who works in NYC and her production property in Western Massachusetts. Active as a studio performer since 2019 and a decade into her on-camera journey dating back to her early days as a Tumblr-era creator, she has built a career rooted in creative autonomy, community engagement and cultural impact.
She’s been named ‘The New American Sex Symbol” on the cover of Petite Mort Magazine. Her work has earned major industry recognition, including an XMA award for ‘Trans Premium Social Media Star of the Year’, PornHub Award for “Favorite Trans Performer”, XBIZ Cam Award for ‘Best Trans Clip Artist’ and a Trans Erotica Award for ‘Pornhub Model of the Year’, along with multiple honors across the XBIZ, XMA, TEA, AVN, YNOT, Urban X Awards, Pornhub Awards, and BCAMS landscapes. She has also appeared as a presenter at the TEA Awards and the XBIZ Cam Awards, and conducted red carpet interviews for the YNOT Cam Awards.
In addition to her on-camera work, Vanniall has screened projects internationally and appeared on Out TV reality series X-Rated NYC and Hot Haus, and hosts Chaturbate’s Sex Tales podcast as well as her own multiplatform OFTV and YouTube lifestyle series Vanniall.TV . She also organizes and appears on panels for industry events and conferences, bringing an informed and community- minded perspective to conversations around sex work, performance and creator sustainability.
Beyond performance, Vanniall is a vocal advocate for trans rights, sex worker rights and sexual wellness, with writing and commentary featured in XBIZ, CNN, Elle, Wired, Fortune and HuffPost. Studio Vanniall is her production company working internationally, and she also runs the physical location Monstergirl Studio as a Western Massachusetts production retreat and rental destination for trans, queer and adult creators and productions. To learn more, visit Vanniall.com or contact Monstergirl Studio.