A gay influencer who became famous in Taiwan by dancing in high heels, and the filmmaker who trained his camera on him for nine years, looks at middle age in “My Silly Flirty Boys.”
Taiwan-based Hong Kong filmmaker Frankie Sin’s documentary is featured at the Taiwan Creative Content Festival (TCCF) in Taipei.
Sin followed Fufu from 2017 to 2026. During this time, Fufu built a following with her online channel “FJ234”, where she featured suggestive dance routines, high-heeled performances, and spoke openly about desire, helping drag queens and other LGBTQ+ performers meet mainstream audiences. Not everyone approved. Critics who wanted gay men to be presented in a more respectable light branded him a “cancer of the gay community”.
Away from the spotlight, Fufu speaks openly about what fame has cost him and the loneliness that ensues when his personality is revealed. He is now approaching 40 years old and is starting to face an aging face and body.
“It started with anxieties about my gay identity and feeling like I didn’t fit the mainstream standards of the community, which led me to point my camera at a stray man who dared to challenge sexual taboos,” Sin says. he says.
Sin swapped one of Hong Kong’s conservative remote islands for Taiwan more than 10 years ago, hoping its reputation for openness would provide him with a place to call his own. Instead he found a local gay scene that valued hyper-masculinity and the “model gay” image.
“This triggered a second wave of anxiety about my body and my identity,” Sin says. “In 2016, I met Fufu, an influencer famous for dancing in high heels. Her bold, confident display of desire was in sharp contrast to my own insecurities and repressions. She became a mirror to me.”
The footage covers the years of legalizing same-sex marriage in Taiwan and shows how gay entertainment grew and was later swallowed up by the mainstream market.
“As two gay men approaching 40—one losing the limelight, the other confronting his deepest insecurities—we are both facing a midlife crisis, learning how to make peace with aging, loneliness, and ourselves,” says Sin.
Fufu’s channel is shutting down this year, and after nearly all of the key footage has been shot, the team is recording nine years of material before rough cutting. Color grading, audio mixing, original music and music releases will follow, with picture lock targeted for the third quarter of 2027.
Stefano Centini and Chuti Chang serve as executive producers, while Henry Leong and Peter Yam also serve as producers. The filmmakers say the film takes an honest look at the hierarchy and shared anxiety within the gay male community in Taiwan.
“By placing both men’s personal changes alongside the rise and fall of Taiwan’s gay entertainment industry, the film offers a rare, honest perspective with strong potential for cross-cultural resonance,” they say.
The team is seeking gap funding to finish the mission in Taipei. He is also looking to meet festival programmers as well as co-producers and sales representatives from abroad to help plan a worldwide release.
Sin is also developing two other feature documentaries about belonging and family. “An Island Boy” follows a young fisherman from Hong Kong, while “Nomads of the Island” explores Sin’s own family history.
Organized by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), the Taiwan Creative Content Festival will be held at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from November 6 to 9.