It’s interesting that one of the first gay movies to completely sell out at this month’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (or LLGFF No.24 to those in the know) and the one with the most screenings is all about gay porn. Actually it’s more predictable than interesting, a bit like Markku Heikkinen’s documentary itself.

All Boys goes behind the scenes of the twink obsessed, adult gay movie industry in eastern European (principally Prague). Turns out it’s not all sunshine and lollipops for these young men – no kidding! The mostly straight boys generally start their x-rated gay movie careers at 18 and have two years to earn a living before they’re considered too old.

Heikkinen clearly knows his subject (always important when you’re making a documentary) and talks to both adult gay movie producers and performers, sometimes presenting these porn companies as a type of alternative family with a Fagin character in the form of the producer looking out for his ‘boys’, but this is a cut-throat and purely commercial environment where people are expendable and an ever-ready queue of young men is lining up to take their place.

The stories of drug-abuse, prostitution, homelessness and young men going off the rails when the work dries up hardly come as a surprise, unless you have a very rose-tinted view of the adult gay movie biz.

Making a serious documentary about gay porn that will simultaneously appeal to film festivals and twink porn fans smacks of having your cake and eating it, but then with adult gay movies vastly outselling non-adult ones, it’s hardly surprising that some indie producers try to cross over.