DANCES WITH FILMS 2026 REVIEW! There’s something darkly funny about the economy of online fetish, and writer/director Katherine Connor Duff leans into it hard with This Little Piggy Goes to Market. It’s the story of what happens when the transaction goes sideways.
Penelope (Siena Solinda) is @QueenPenelope online — a foot fetish content creator with a devoted following of men who know her feet intimately but have never seen her face. Subscribers like @joestoes (Frank Krueger) and @legalnightmare (Krosby Joao Roza) are not only fans but have also built entire fantasies around her…feet. Then an eviction notice brings Penelope to reality. She needs three thousand dollars fast.
How do you make three grand fast? Put your feet on a livestream, and it works. Though in split screen, we see the nasty details of what her subscribers do in the privacy of their own homes… or while driving for Uber. And it does…until the chat makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
“…until the chat makes her an offer she can’t refuse.”
Filmmaker Katherine Connor Duff drew inspiration for This Little Piggy Goes to Market from the performer-audience feedback loop: a woman being shaped in real time by the livestream chat and a faceless crowd demanding more without limit. Duff says she pondered both sides of that equation. The split-screen format is her way of making that literal, collapsing the distance between subject and spectator until the viewer realizes they aren’t watching from the outside — they’re already inside the machine.
This Little Piggy Goes to Market is provocatively written and conceived. It hits on the pressure to perform online and the lines we’re willing… or forced to cross, and it’s captured perfectly for the short film format. Penelope’s online persona becomes a product, and cash becomes the thing that compromises every boundary. Humor and pathos make their way into the split screen as subscribers do the unimaginable on their side, then turn into a mob, challenging her to compromise even more.
This Little Piggy Goes to Market screened at the 2026 Dances with Films.
"…Put your feet on a livestream, and it works."
