Los Angeles
Advanced Screening - “We Were Here”
— Paul Federbush’s new release August 17, 2011 / 7:30 p.m.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
At the August 17 meeting of PFLAG Los Angeles, Federbush will screen portions of a new film his company is releasing, the wrenching, inspiring We Were Here a story of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco told by the people who lived it.
We Were Here focuses on 5 individuals – all of who lived in San Francisco prior to the epidemic. Their lives changed in unimaginable ways when their beloved city morphed from a hotbed of sexual freedom and social experimentation into the epicenter of a terrible sexually transmitted plague. From their different vantage points as caregivers, activists, researchers, as friends and lovers of the afflicted, and as people with AIDS themselves, the interviewees share stories which are not only intensely personal, but which also illuminate the much larger themes of that era: the political and sexual complexities, the terrible emotional toll, the role of women – particularly lesbians – in caring for and fighting for their gay brothers.
Red Flag Releasing (RFR) is a recently formed distribution company, was created “out of a desire to create new paths and opportunities for independent filmmakers in this age of ubiquitous technological change.” The company acquires completed films and pursues projects for which it can provide finishing funds.
As senior executives at Warner Independent Pictures, Federbush and co-founder of Red Flag Releasing Laura Kim , worked on the acquisition and release of such films as Oscar®-winning documentary March of the Penguins, as well as Oscar®-nominated films Good Night, and Good Luck. and Paradise Now. Federbush also acquired and worked as a production executive on Oscar®-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
Come and hear a Hollywood professional with an amazing instinct for great films talk about the moving documentary that took the film festival circuit by storm.
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