Film Credits
Produced and directed by
David Weissman
Editor/ co-director
Bill Weber
Director of Photography
Marsha Kahm
Location Sound
Lauretta Molitor
Music
Holcombe Waller
In Order of Appearance:
Ed Wolf
Paul Boneberg
Daniel Goldstein
Guy Clark
Eileen Glutzer
Additional Music
Doug Hilsinger
Post Production Supervisor
Bill Weber
Audio Post-Production
James LeBrecht – Berkeley Sound Artists
Color Correction
Gary Coates
Project Consultants
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Gail Silva
Post Production Services
Spy Post
Camera and Lighting Equipment
Robert Dockendorff
Archival Research
Gerard Koskovich
Elizabeth Pepin Silva
Archival Support
Alex Cherian
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
Rebekah Kim
GLBT Historical Society
Budget Support
Sophie Harris
Editorial Intern
Jared Morgan
Humanities Advisors
Jonathan Katz
Paul Boneberg
Grantwriting (CCH Grant)
Jeff Jones
Legal Services
Kate Fritz, Jennifer Stanley, et al
Fenwick and West
Producer’s Representative
Jonathan Dana
Distribution Consultants
The Film Collaborative
Publicity
MPRM Communications
Archival Footage
Many thanks to these amazing filmmakers who so powerfully documented the AIDS epidemic in the early years:
Fighting for Our Lives: Facing AIDS in San Francisco
Dir: Ellen Seidler
Living With AIDS
Dir: Tina DiFeliciantonio
Silverlake Life
Dir: Peter Friedman and Tom Joslin
Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age
Dir: Marc Huestis and Wendy Dallas
Additional Archival Footage
Chuck Roseberg
Ellen Seidler
KQED San Francisco
KPIX San Francisco
Network for Continuing Medical Education
and other sources
Archival Photos
Crawford Barton
Robert Pruzan
Marie Ueda
Henri Leleu
(all the above courtesy GLBT Historical Society)
Greg Day
Marc Geller
Rick Gerharter
Sibylla Herbrich
Jim James
Hans Kwiotek
Dan Nicoletta
Mariella Poli
Alon Reininger
Rink
Yeli Sanchez
Frank Yamrus
and many unknown photographers
Nude self-portraits by John Davis
(courtesy of Terri Davis and J. John Priola)
Special Acknowledgement
Tom Burtch, for digitizing all the obituaries from the Bay Area Reporter
This project was made possible with support from California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the Skirball Foundation. The Council is an independent non-profit organization and a partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Major funding provided by:
Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
San Francisco Foundation Bay Area Documentary Fund
The Small Change Foundation
Frameline Completion Fund
Nathan Cummings Foundation
San Francisco Film Society/ Film Arts Foundation
Fenwick and West
Furthur Foundation
Individual Donors
Alvin Baum
Cynthia Lovelace Sears & Frank Buxton
Joseph Garrett and Spike Lomibao
Robert Dockendorff
Felicia Oldfather
Susan Shaw (in memory of Nicholas Vance Zuckerman)
Darren Star
Rudd Canaday and Gerard Walker
Murray Edelman
Ann Jeffries
Stephen Martin and Douglas Schmidt
Howard Roffman and Duane Waters
Olivia Sears and Craig Bicknell
Julie Benello
Dennis Chicola and Ron Newman
Karl Christiansen
Jay Cohen
Michael Ehrenzweig
Elizabeth Katz and LeeAnn Thompson
Tom Kelley
Thomas Lauderdale and Philip Iosca
Thomas Mills
Adam Berman
Adam Blum and Gary Lang
Robert Croonquist
Mark Garrett and Eric Smith
David M. Helbraun and Boone Callaway
Dr. Jay Lalezari
James Mattingly
Michael Ritter and Peter Toscani
Rebecca Westerfield
Ron Zuckerman
and many more!
Fundraising Support
The Incomparable Ron Zuckerman
Brenda Laribee
Special Thanks
David Cohen, for suggesting that I make this film.
Rich Aranow
Al Baum
Linda Blackaby
Christian Bruno
David Boyer
Alex Cherian
Lenore Chinn
Karl Christiansen
Pam David
Rob Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Russ Gage
Mark Garrett and Eric Smith
Donnie Gayer
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Daniel Goldstein
Mark Holmes
Sharon Johnson
Lori Joseph
Steve Keith
John Killacky
Brent Kirsten
Vivian Kleiman
Jason Lahman
Brenda Laribee
Gene London
Dawn Logsdon
Jimmy Loyce
Kevin M. Lyons
Chris Martin
Joey Plaster
Stephen Pullis
Kirk Read
Myke Reilly
Clayton Robbins
Danny Sauro
Veronica Selver
Matthew Simmons
Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufrman
Aaron Starr
Peter Stein
Strange de Jim
Sam Tucker and Lewis Nightingale
Michele Turnure-Salleo
Louise Vance
Natalia Vekic