Funny Boy Films to make gay Latino tale 'Elliot Loves'

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Funny Boy Films is teaming with Chad Allen's production company, Mythgarden, to make the gay Latino tale Elliot Loves, it was announced Thursday.

The gay Mythgarden partners of Allen, Christopher Racster, and actor Robert Gant are joining forces with Kirkland Tibbels and George Bendele of Funny Boy to make the film. Tibbels and Bendele were behind the gay festival hit Latter Days and the recently released Adam & Steve.

Eilliot Loves chronicles the coming of age of a Dominican-American gay man. (The Advocate)

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