One of the common themes in films about XP is whether teens with XP will risk sun exposure in pursuit of a romantic partner.Film series like Children of Darkness, a German silent-drama film which was released in two parts in the year of 1921 and 1922 respectively, was among some of the initially popular movies that was made about XP. Other films, like the 1964 American drama film Della, starring Joan Crawford, Paul Burke, Charles Bickford and Diane Baker, directed by Robert Gist, which was originally produced by Four Star Television as a television pilot for a proposed NBC series named Royal Bay, was also based on this skin disease. The Dark Side of the Sun, a 1988 American-Yugoslavian drama film, was directed by Božidar Nikolić and stars Brad Pitt for his first ever leading role as a young man in search of a cure for his disorder. The Others (2001 film), a 2001 American  psychological horror film starring Nicole Kidman, features two children, Anne and Nicholas, who must avoid all sunlight because of a rare disease characterized by photosensitivity. A CBS television movie aired in 1994, Children of the Dark, was based on the story of the real-life couple Jim and Kim Harrison, whose two daughters have XP.Lurlene McDaniels young adult book How I Do Love Thee features the story "Night Vision", in which the protagonist, leukemia survivor Brett, falls in love with a girl named Shayla that has XP.
Christopher Snow, the protagonist of Dean Koontzs Moonlight Bay Trilogy, has XP and therefore must live most of his life during the night. The first two entries of the trilogy, Fear Nothing and Seize the Night, were both published in 1998. The final entry in the trilogy, tentatively titled Ride the Storm, has yet to be published as of August 2020.The 2011 French drama film The Moon Child is based on a 13-year-old child with XP, which prevents him from exposing himself to daylight. The 2012 documentary Sun Kissed explores the XP problem on the Navajo Indian Reservation, and links it to the genetic legacy of the Long Walk of the Navajo, when the Navajo people were forced to move to a new location.The 2018 romance film Midnight Sun,  based on a 2006 Japanese film, A Song to the Sun, tells the story of a girl named Katie Price with XP and the impact of her sickness on her life and relationships, following the story of Prices accidental exposure to sunlight and subsequent neurological degeneration. Research directions
Research into XP has had two main results: better understanding the disease itself, and also better understanding the normal biological mechanisms involved in DNA repair. Research into XP has produced insights that have been translated into treatments and prevention for cancer. See also
DeSanctis–Cacchione syndrome
Genetic disorder
Biogerontology
Cockayne syndrome
List of cutaneous conditions
List of cutaneous conditions associated with increased risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer
Photophobia
Senescence

References
External links

GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on xeroderma pigmentosum