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Zack And Miri Make A Porno . . . And so do a lot of Bostonians

In his latest film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Kevin Smith takes a break from the View Askewniverse to bring us the story of Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks), two longtime friends and roomies stuck in deadend jobs. After running out of rent money, the pair decide to make a quick buck by creating their own shoestring-budget wank film — only to discover that their platonic relationship might be something much deeper.

 As you might expect, making homegrown porn isn’t a pursuit just for desperately cashstrapped slackers, and to prove it, Good Vibrations (308A Harvard Street, Brookline; 617.264.4400) has a whole slew of DIY smut. Hot on the heels of Zack and Miri’s October 31 release, the alterna-sex shop will be unveiling its Amateur Erotic Film Festival at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street, Brookline, 617.734.2500) on November 7.

The event marks the East Coast debut of Good Vibrations’ annual newbie-nudie-film showcase, which has been getting San Francisco audiences hot and bothered since 2006. In doing so, GV is taking up the mantle as Boston’s premier hobby-porn showcase (a title once held by sexuality queen Kim Airs’s “You Oughta Be In Pictures” series).

Audiences whose porn tastes have been honed on the silicone whetstone of mainstream  erotica should be in for a surprise, according to GV events coordinator Camilla Lombard. “The cool thing about it is the diversity in what people consider erotic, and they were so all over the map,” she says of this past year’s lineup. “It was really fun.” Her short list of favorites includes an artsy (and surprisingly hot) piece about two people making out, a local comedian’s stand-up routine about his first orgasm, and a film depicting flirtation in a men’s restroom. “There was only one film that was straight-up sex,” she recalls.

What advice does Lombard offer to Camcorder-toting Jack Horners-to-be? “Have a vision, and just produce that vision based on what entertains you,” she says. “And if you go from what is exciting and interesting to you, it’s pretty much bound to resonate with somebody.”