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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 pro 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Jenni,
    This is beautiful. I'm so touched. Will show it to students.
    Thanks.
    Anne Walsh
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  • jim fouratt 3 years 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 plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful set.
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  • Chris Garcia 3 years 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 3 years ago
    very powerful - Great work.
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  • Pete Clark 3 years ago
    Hi
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  • suehagerman 3 years ago
    Awe inspiring and genius to bring this voice from the past to our present day consciousness.
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  • Greg F. 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • heavyhittasdotcom 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!!
    youtube.com/watch?v=CN3MGcrxvRI
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  • malcolm man plus 3 years ago
    I'd never heard this speech before.

    I'm blown away.
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  • Tyler 3 years ago
    Great job
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  • Patrick Zimmerman plus 1 year ago
    Thank you so much for creating this film. It is especially poignant now, given the recent suicides of Tyler Clementi and other young people. Harvey Milk's message remains an ever so important one today: “You gotta’ give them hope.” Again, thanks so much. I quietly shed a tear listening to it.
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