Silverlake Life: The View from Here is a 1993 documentary film by director Peter Friedman (not the actor of the same name) and Tom Joslin. Shot with a hand-held video camera, the film documents the final months of a relationship between two gay men — Tom Joslin (November 29, 1946 - July 1, 1990)[1] and his partner, Mark Massi (July 21, 1948 - August 6, 1991) — as they both struggle to deal with AIDS. The journey that Tom and Mark face as two partners dying of AIDS is to demonstrate realistically how their lives changed. Everyday tasks became chores until the last day of Tom's life came upon them. The honest and realistic portrayal allows the audience to see behind the scenes of a person affected by HIV.

The film won several awards[2] including a 1994 Peabody Award. It shared the 1993 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival with the film Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Tom Joslin". IMDb.
  2. ↑ Awards for Silverlake Life: The View from Here (1993) at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Ehrenstein, David (14 March 1993). "MOVIES : AIDS, Death and Videotape : 'Silverlake Life: The View From Here' is a first-person slice of HIV-positive life, a love story about a gay couple's final days together. 'Beyond AIDS,' says co-director Peter Friedman, 'there's a whole set of other issues the film deals with about gay relationships being . . .made invisible by society'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 September 2018.


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