We Were Here (film)

We Were Here is a 2011 documentary film about the HIV/AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The film, produced and directed by David Weissman with editor/ co-director and Bill Weber, premièred at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011, The Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011 and had its theatrical première at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on February 25, 2011.

Contents

• We were here trailer
• We were here official trailer
• People interviewed
• Reception
• References

People interviewed

The film focuses on 5 different interviews of people that had a protagonist role during the epidemic. These people are, in order of appearance:

Ed Wolf, a counselor to many gay men

Paul Boneberg, a political activist

Daniel Goldstein, an HIV+ artist who lost 2 partners to AIDS

Guy Clark, a black dancer who ran a florist's in Castro, supplying flowers to many funerals

Eileen Glutzer, a nurse who helped administer clinical trials of antiretroviral drugs

Reception

It holds a 100% "certified fresh" rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and a 94 rating on Metacritic, the highest among films of 2011.