Funny Boy Films has found in Peter Paige a director for their drama Sex Crime Panic.
With starring roles in both the short-lived animated series Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World and the Showtime hit Queer as Folk, Paige is no stranger to working with scripts concerning the GLBT community, making him a particularly good choice to direct the film.
Based on Neil Miller’s book Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s, the film will look at the issue of homosexuality in the 50s. The movie will tell the true story of how a group of men was thrown in a mental institution for the sole fact of being gay.
This is a heavy topic, and finding a director who can approach it in an appropriate manner is a necessity. Said Paige, “We’re thinking of this film in the vein of Capote, Milk and Girl, Interrupted. It’s an intense, dramatic exploration of a dark period in our history.” Hopefully Paige will successfully be able to achieve this.
Production is set to begin mid-2010.
