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Holding the Man (2015)

10/6/2016

 
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“I can’t remember where he sat…was he opposite or beside me?  I’m trying to write it down…”

Neil Armfield directs Holding the Man which tells the story of Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo’s 15 year romance through the 1970s and into the 1980s, when AIDS tore them apart.  The film is based on a novel of the same name, penned by Connigrave (a writer, actor and activist) which was first published in 1995 shortly after his death.  

Holding the Man remains one of the most important and well-known works of Australian LGBT fiction and it later became a successful play directed by Tommy Murphy, first shown in 2006.  Murphy also wrote the script for the film, which was released in 2015. 

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We Were Here (2011)

11/7/2015

 
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This powerful multi award winning documentary was released in 2013, to much critical acclaim.  Weissman's film is one of the first to reflect on the impact of the AIDS crisis on the gay men of San Francisco.

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