He was named “one of five gay and lesbian directors to watch” by the trade magazine Variety. And his life was an open book--literally--on last year’s AMC reality series Gay Hollywood, which followed five openly gay men as they tried to build careers in the entertainment industry.

Brocka also has two future projects in the works: a documentary about his uncle, Lino Brocka, the Filipino filmmaker who made the notable gay movie Macho Dancer, and a screen adaptation of the popular gay novel, Boy Culture, by Matthew Rettenmund, which finished shooting in November.

Afterelton.com: Allan, you must be all “gayed” out?
Q. Allan Brocka: Not at all. Being gay is my work. As a writer and director, all I really have is my voice, my experience, and who I am. That’s what I bring to the table, besides the technical skills that I got in film school. It’s who I am, and I guess I’ve done pretty well.

AE: You’ve said that there’s nothing meaningful in Eating Out, is that true?
AB: The film is pure fun. It’s kind of on the level of Rick and Steve. But I wanted to make a movie with really sexy guys. It sort of reminded me of a John Hughes movie. I was always a huge fan of The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. I used the influences from that genre along with the college-sex farces of Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds and American Pie. I borrowed the story arcs and the character types from those kinds of movies, flipped them around and shaped them like the people who were in my class at college.

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