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A film by Jenni Olson

In 2008, the Castro Camera Store, where Harvey Milk lived and worked in the late 1970's, was recreated at the same address for Gus Van Sant's film MILK.

This film was shot on that same set with audio of Harvey Milk from a 1977 recording outlining Harvey's wishes in the event of his assassination.

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  • Michael Brodner AKA Bones plus 1 year ago
    Nice Jenni. I'll absolutely post this. I can't wait for Van Sant's film on Milk
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  • Jenni Olson 11 months ago
    Hey Film Fans!

    If you like this short and are interested in learning more about it please come visit the film's Official Website at:

    575castrostreet.blogspot.com/

    Thanks so much!

    Jenni Olson
    Director, 575 Castro St.
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  • Anne Walsh 11 months ago
    Jenni,
    This is beautiful. I'm so touched. Will show it to students.
    Thanks.
    Anne Walsh
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  • jim fouratt 11 months ago
    Thanks Jenny for bringing Harvey’s actual voice front and center.

    It brought tears to my eyes

    And his message COME OUT and STAND OUT TO BE COUNTED is still so timely given the passage of Prop 8 and the retreat of New York State elected liberals from actually voting to make same sex civil marriage the right of all same sex couples.

    Harvey would have been positively livid (note the adjative). Talk is cheap; action is what matters!

    jim fouratt
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  • Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. staff 11 months ago
    Beautiful set.
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  • Chris Garcia 11 months ago
    That's blocks from my house! The whole neighborhood went back into to time machine when MILK was filming. Looked so awesome. Thanks for capturing a very special (albeit tragic) time in San Francisco history.
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  • Chad Richard plus 11 months ago
    very powerful - Great work.
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  • Pete Clark 11 months ago
    Hi
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  • suehagerman 11 months ago
    Awe inspiring and genius to bring this voice from the past to our present day consciousness.
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  • Greg F. 11 months ago
    I don't know much about the background of this film, but I'm definitely going to look into it now!

    Good Job!
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  • Sean Carley plus 11 months ago
    This brought back memories. Not of Castro so much. But of a short film I'd made when I was 19. I'd totally forgotten about it. I used the exact same voice over (Milk's tape recording) and used still images of my gay friends. I didn't even know I was "filmmaking" at the time. It was for a photography class. Anyhow, I'd seen the original Life and Times of Harvey Milk on VHS and was moved by it then. The words still carry so much gravitas years later.

    Oh, and the movie MILK is really extraordinary. See it.
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 11 months ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 11 months ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 11 months ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 11 months ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 11 months ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 11 months ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • malcolm man 10 months ago
    I'd never heard this speech before.

    I'm blown away.
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  • Tyler 10 months ago
    Great job
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