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100%
Rotten Tomatoes

Initial DVD release
  
May 15, 2012 (USA)

Duration
  

Language
  
English

8/10
IMDb

94%
Metacritic

Genre
  
Documentary

Music director
  
Holcombe Waller

Country
  
USA

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Director
  
David Weissman, Bill Weber

Release date
  
September 2011 (USA)

Initial release
  
February 25, 2011 (San Francisco)

Directors
  
David Weissman, Bill Weber

Cast
  
Ed Wolf
(Himself),
Paul Boneberg
(Himself),
Daniel Goldstein
(Himself),
Guy Clark
(Himself),
Eileen Glutzer
(Herself)

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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.

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People interviewed

We Were Here (film) movie scenes

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

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  • 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

    We Were Here review AIDS horrific early years SFGate

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


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