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We Were Here is a 2011 American documentary film about the HIV/AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The film, produced and directed by David Weissman with editor and co-director Bill Weber, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011, with its international festival premiere following at the Berlin International Film Festival in
We Were Here: Directed by David Weissman, Bill Weber. With Ed Wolf, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark, Eileen Glutzer. A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.
We Were Here evokes an epic history, through the intimate recollections of five longtime San Franciscans whose lives were transformed by the epidemic. The history recounted in We Were Here extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself.
WE WERE HERE. 2013 EMMY AWARD NOMINEE—OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY. 2012 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD NOMINEE—BEST DOCUMENTARY. “Of all the cinematic explorations of the AIDS crisis, not one is more heartbreaking and inspiring than WE WERE HERE ….
We Were Here revisits the crises facing the gay community in the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the inspiring resolve shown at a time of turmoil. During the 1970s, San...
- Documentary, Biography, History, Drama, LGBTQ+
David Weissman's critically-acclaimed 2012 Independent Spirit Award nominee, WE WERE HERE is the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in...
We Were Here focuses on 5 individuals – all of whom lived in San Francisco prior to the epidemic. Their lives changed in unimaginable ways when their beloved city changed from a hotbed of sexual freedom and social experimentation into the epicenter of a terrible sexually transmitted plague.
