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15 Mar 2016

REMEMBERING THE MAN 

Arts, LGBTI Community, Society & Culture

REMEMBERING THE MAN 

In the 1970s, at an exclusive all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, arty and flamboyant Tim Conigrave fell madly in love with John Caleo, the star of the school’s football team…

Remembering The Man_Image 1_Tim Conigrave and John Caleo

Remembering The Man_Image 4_Tim Conigrave and John CaleoProduced and Directed by Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe, Remembering The Man is a documentary about Tim Conigrave and John Caleo –  the true Melbourne story of love, loss and the AIDS epidemic that became Holding The Man.

Remembering the Man paints a raw, gritty and intimate picture of these two young men through intimate interviews with friends and colleagues and through unprecedented access to archival footage and family photos.

Remembering The Man_Image 8_John Caleo and Tim Conigrave

A feature length documentary, Remembering the Man follows the course of the Tim and John’s tumultuous relationship: their awkward schoolboy romance; their parents’ efforts to keep them apart; temptation, infidelity and separation; how they came back together stronger than before; their diagnosis with HIV and their battle to stay alive; John’s death; and Tim’s race against time to finish writing their story before he died.

Remembering The Man

Producers/Directors of Remembering The Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe

SCREENING DATES

7 Apr 2016 Melbourne Queer Film Festival

17 Apr 2016 Cinema Nova (Melbourne theatrical release)

Nov 2016 DVD online release

 

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