The Times of Harvey Milk

Infobox Film
name = The Times of Harvey Milk
caption = 20^th Anniversary Collector's Edition DVD cover art
director = Rob Epstein
producer = Richard Schmiechen
Gregory W. Bex
eproducer =
aproducer =
writer = Judith Coburn
Carter Wilson
starring = Harvey Milk
Harvey Fierstein
Tom Ammiano
Bill Kraus
music = Mark Isham
cinematography = Peter Adair
Frances Reid
Jon Else
Arthur Bressan Jr.
editing = Rob Epstein
Deborah Hoffmann
distributor = Black Sand Prod.
Pacific Arts
released = 1 November 1984
Castro Theatre, SF
runtime = 90 min.
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:50073
imdb_id = 0088275

"The Times of Harvey Milk" is an Academy Award-winning documentary, produced in the United States and premiered on 1 November 1984 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

ynopsis

"The Times of Harvey Milk", directed by Rob Epstein, documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor. The film, at times humorous, at times nostalgic, and at times tragic, documents the rise of Milk from a neighborhood activist to becoming a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination at San Francisco's city hall.

Featured people

The film was produced after Milk's death using archival footage, so that Milk is credited as the lead (posthumously). Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage. The movie opens with a tearful Feinstein delivering her announcement to the media that Moscone and Milk had been assassinated by Dan White.

Also featured in the film is then-schoolteacher Tom Ammiano, who has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 1994.

The film was narrated by Harvey Fierstein.

Awards

The film won the Academy Award for best documentary film in 1985, and was awarded Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, among other awards. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/awards]

References

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/ The Times of Harvey Milk] at the Internet Movie Database.

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years=1984
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