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Miley film pulled from porn festival

Miley ain’t so wild after all.

After The Post and other outlets reported Monday the singer had submitted a film for the first-ever NYC Porn Film Festival, her representatives have had the video removed from the Bushwick event and its website.

The festival’s organizer lied when he said Cyrus had personally submitted the film — a 3-minute erotic, bondage-heavy short titled “Tongue Tied — and then misled the production company Cadence Films into granting permission to use it, her representatives said Tuesday night. The producers and the singer’s representatives asked organizer Simon Leahy to remove the film from the festival and its online listings, which Leahy did Tuesday night.

“Miley was proud to make a film with acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Jones. She did not instigate this festival submission and is not participating in any way,” a spokesperson for the “We Can’t Stop” singer said.

Leahy originally told The Post Monday that Cyrus had submitted to the festival, which opens later this month and features amateur and professional work, after hearing about it through mutual friends. He showed The Post e-mails with Cadence confirming the company would allow the film to be shown.

But the singer’s representatives said those e-mails were misleading. The festival was presented then as a “shorts screening at the artist ran space Secret project Robot,” a venue in Bushwick. The e-mail seen by The Post contained no link to the NYC Porn Festival site, where visitors face an “18 and over” checkpoint upon entry.

Leahy told The Post Tuesday night he complied with the takedown request right away. He also removed a Facebook post bragging “We got Miley!”

“Basically they didn’t do their due diligence,” he said. “We asked to show it at the festival. Because the word porn is involved, basically the media has just sensationalized it and turned it into a click bait story.”

The news had spread worldwide, appearing on sites like Gawker, MTV and the Hollywood Reporter.
“Obviously the story went totally viral that freaked everyone out,” Leahy said. “We don’t want to cause any harm to Miley and her image.”

Leahy defended the arts content of the festival and said Cyrus’s video — which contains no sex but rather shows the singer in bondage scenarios, including some scenes where her nipples are covered in black tape — would have fit in. The video includes the song “Fitzpleasure” by alternative artist Alt-J. It’s been online since the spring, and was used as the opening video on her Bangerz tour last year.

“It’s like we are an art festival,” he said. “Even though we’re using the work porn, we’re not some cheap LA porn award festival.”