Word for Word

15 Mar 2016

REMEMBERING THE MAN 

Arts, LGBTI Community, Society & Culture

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…

Produced 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.

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.

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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