February 16, 2006
The Times of Harvey Milk
Academy Award Winning film by Rob Epstein and Richard Schmeichen
Narrated by Harvey Fierstein
Music by Mark Isham
Date: Thursday, February 16th
Rob Epstein Reception: 6:30-7:30pm
Screening: 7:30- 9:00pm followed by Q&A with Mr. Epstein
Location: River Oaks Theatre - click for link to map
Door Prize: Signed copy of the DVD
Synopsis: In 1978, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco city council, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. One year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Milk's fellow council member, former police officer and fire fighter Dan White. The Times of Harvey Milk recreates the tumultuous story of Milk's grass-roots political organizing and election, through the shocking murders and their repercussions from the eloquent candle-light memorial joined by tens of thousands of San Franciscans on the evening of the assassinations, to the angry mobs who stormed City Hall, breaking windows and torching police cars in the aftermath of White's lenient sentencing at his murder trial.
About the filmmaker: Rob Epstein began his filmmaking career at age twenty by answering an ad in the paper seeking volunteers for what would become the landmark documentary Word Is Out. Rob became a co-director on that film, and has since produced and directed numerous non-fiction works for national television including The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival (co-directed with Peter Adair -1986), and the PBS series We The People with Peter Jennings (1997). His Academy Awards™ for Harvey Milk and Common Threads, along with three Peabody Awards, four Emmys, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, have made Rob one of the most acclaimed non-fiction film directors working today. He currently teaches film in the graduate program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Awards:
Academy Award Winner
Best Feature Documentary
New York Film Critics Circle Award
Best Documentary
George Foster Peabody Award
University of Georgia School of Journalism
Grand Prix
Lyon Film Festival
3 National Emmy Awards
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Outstanding Informational Special
Outstanding Editing
Outstanding Interviewing
Co-Sponsored by: Houston Equal Rights Alliance, Houston GLBT Political Caucus
Underwritten by: Saint Arnold Brewing Co., Southwest Airlines, HEB
Photos courtesy of Telling Pictures
