Sex work is work!
Mikko Makela, the director of the film 2024 film ‘Sebastian’ which primarily deals with the subject of sex work revealed in an interview with Gay City News that it was important for him to portray sex work without being a caricature of already popular bias against the career.
“It was really important for me to approach the topic of sex work in a completely nonjudgmental way — not bringing any moral question(s) to it. Not thinking that there has to be some kind of trauma behind his decision to do sex work or that it would lead to trauma, either. That was the first important step.”
The film which premiered in December during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival tells the story of Max a magazine writer who went undercover as a sex worker for his piece at the publication. Things get complicated when he gets fully immersed in the industry and he gets attached to a client.
