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Director - Country
Finland
Heikkinen Markku
All Boys
"All Boys" tells the story of the rise and demise of the gay porn brand in the Czech Republic of the mid-1990s. The film focuses on the lives of producer Dan Komar and his young models, expecially a young homeless boy Ruda. The film is about human relationships in the gay porn business and about the production and consumption of porn. "All Boys" shows ambivalent, weird, great and complex moments of human life. The young men’s illusions about future meet the fantasies of their seniors. We are all human. We are all exploiting others and being exploited in the money-driven market economy. Even consumers are voluntary or involuntary members in the club of exploitation.
"All Boys" tells the story of the rise and demise of the gay porn brand in the Czech Republic of the mid-1990s. The film focuses on the lives of producer Dan Komar and his young models, expecially a young homeless boy Ruda. The film is about human relationships in the gay porn business and about the production and consumption of porn. "All Boys" shows ambivalent, weird, great and complex moments of human life. The young men’s illusions about future meet the fantasies of their seniors. We are all human. We are all exploiting others and being exploited in the money-driven market economy. Even consumers are voluntary or involuntary members in the club of exploitation.
Markku Heikkinen (born 1966) studied sociology and philosophy at the Tampere University and documentary filmmaking at the Film School at the UIAH in Helsinki, graduating with an MA in 2006. He has worked as TV and radio journalist in YLE since 1986 and as a freelance documentary film maker since 1993, completing several YLE in-house productions as well as five films in independent production.
Filmography:
These include Zavtra (2005) and The Secret We Share (1999). His most recent work before All boys was a 12 x 45 min documentary series about the 70’s pop culture and social life in Finland, directed together with Ari Matikainen.