Aue, Michael

1987

San Franciscan Peter Sieglar is the subject of I'm Still Alive. Sieglar was born in Germany. He returned there in 1986 to reveal to his family that he had AIDS. The trip home helped to crystallize his thoughts on AIDS, homosexuality, and the meaning of his life, all of which he generously shares with director Micheal Aue (and us). A very sweet and hopeful tape, I'm Still Alive is a testament to the wisdom and resilience of the human spirit.

Seidler, Ellen

1987

A history of AIDS in San Francisco that traces its effects on gay and other communities. Discusses how political and medical issues converged and surveys support groups that emerged.

Friedrich, Su

1987

1987

Franchini, Frankie

1993

A short video about falling in love.

Butler, Kenneth

1987

A documentary about the 1967 Sexual Offences Act in England, which decriminalized homosexuality between consenting males over the age of twenty-one.

McAnally, Conor

1987

Shot in the U.S. for Irish television, AIDS: A Priest's Testament is the story of Father Bernard Lynch, an Irish-born priest and psychotherapist who set up an AIDS ministry in New York. Father Lynch is a daring, eloquent, and passionate missionary who discusses with startling honesty the pressures that have brought him close to the edge of his physical and spiritual limits as he conducts his ministry.

Friedberg, Lionel

1987

Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African female impersonator/caricaturist whose finely-wrought satirical touring show elucidates apartheid while lampooning it. Uys walks a thin line between censorship and arrest as he occasionally steps out of characters that include P.W. Botha, Desmond Tutu, and Margaret Thatcher to deliver pointed attacks on apartheid and the South African government. Uys’s popularity with both white and black audiences insulates him somewhat from government interference, but he describes his balancing act as being "like doing the tango in front of a firing squad." Across the Rubicon brilliantly portrays the humor and grace with which Uys makes his contribution to the fight against apartheid.

Ford, Phillip R.

1986

Tonge, Roger

1986

In most instances of banned or censored TV tales, the outcry is often more imaginative than the acutal film. Two of Us is a rare rule-breaker; an atypical tale of working-class teens who cross the fine line from friendship to sex, it's both austere and sensual. Filmed in 1986 as part of a BBC school series, with transmission postponed in the light of Thatcherite concern over sex education, and then delayed further during the drawing up of Section 28, Britain's legislation which forbids local councils from "promoting homosexuality," Two of Us was finally aired on public TV in March 1988 at an unusually late hour, with two scenes abridged—the end (which suggests that Phil returns to Mathew) and an earlier embrace (amended by adding T-shirts and erasing a quick kiss). Fortunately, this special festival version will include the T-shirts off and the kiss in.