SCREEN AUSTRALIA, GOALPOST FILM, SNOW REPUBLIC present in association with SCREEN NSW and FILM VICTORIA a GOALPOST PICTURES production in association with HTM PRODUCTIONS HOLDING THE MAN Theatrical Release: June 3 2016 | Touring POUTfest LGBT Film Tour: www.poutfesttour.co.uk Directed by Neil Armfield Written by Tommy Murphy Produced by Kylie du Fresne Cast Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Geoffrey Rush, Kerry Fox, Camilla Ah Kin, Sarah Snook, Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia. Based on the memoir “Holding The Man” by Timothy Conigrave UK Distributor Peccadillo Pictures Press contact: Olivia Jarvis /
[email protected] / 07501929067 THE FILM SYNOPSIS Based on the much loved and hugely successful memoir and stage play of the same name, HOLDING THE MAN is the warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo. Tim was an aspiring actor. John, the captain of the school football team. Their relationship blossomed and endured in the face of prejudice, adversity and the cruel illness that devastated the gay community in the ‘80s. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT I read Tim Conigrave’s memoir soon after it was published in 1995. Miraculously, Tim had finished writing it on his deathbed in St Vincent’s Hospital in 1994, with his friend and teacher Nick Enright helping him through. I knew Tim a little, but I knew Nick very well – I had just made a television film of Nick’s screenplay CORAL ISLAND – and I immediately tried to get the screen rights to Tim’s fabulous book.