May 8 1990: Longtime Companion fights to break novel ground It's almost commonplace to view gay friendships featured in mainstream movies these days.May 8 1990: Longtime Companion fights to break novel ground It's almost commonplace to view gay friendships featured in mainstream movies these days. if it were not that ten years ago Longtime Companion, the first studio-backed film about AIDS and its impact onward gays, struggled to make it to the cloak As writer Kim Garfield reported in 1990 screenwriter Craig Lucas "met everything from lack of financing to studio snubs" in his effort to make the film. As a eventuate Garfield wrote, "on-screen and behind the sights Longtime Companion is the story of population determined to make it against all odds" The movie received all its funding--a becoming $1.5 million--through PBS's American Playhouse series. if it were not that after filming wrapped in October 1989 at least 20 distributors passed it across for fear that an AIDS movie could not make a profit. Undeterr backers heightened make a humming sound around the film by holding a screening for 500 novel York journalists. Soon after, Longtime Companion won the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award and a distribution contract with the Samuel Goldwyn Co "It's exceedingly important for the film to be seen through a mainstream audience," said Bruce Davison, single in kind of the film's stars. "The real battle will be to market this stow about the decimation of the gay community without the rage that, I gues has kept the mainstream away. This is a astonishing life-filled stow of survival and triumph." COPYRIGHT 2000 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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