Starring: Timothy Conigrave, John Caleo, George Banders, Reece Manning, Richard Bligh
Director: Nickolas Bird, Eleanor Sharpe
Running Time: 83 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: June 12th 2017 (UK)

If you’ve read Timothy Conigrave’s 1995 memoir, Holding The Man, or seen the more recent film version (or indeed the play), you’ll know a bit about the relationship between Conigrave and John Caleo. This documentary retells the tale, focused around taped interviews Conigrave did with an AIDS oral history project before his death, as well as with interviews with the couple’s friends.

The documentary recounts how Timothy and John met as students at a Catholic High School in Australia and started to date one another. Despite a bit of tumult, break-ups and Timothy moving away to become an actor, the connection between the two remained and they developed an abiding love for one another. [Read more…]