We Were Here is the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, that calamitous epidemic.

Though a San Francisco-based story, We Were Here extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and to the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion, and determination.

Filmmakers David Weissman and Bill Weber co-directed the 2001 documentary, The Cockettes, chronicling San Francisco’s legendary theatre troupe of hippies and drag queens, 1969 – 1972. We Were Here revisits San Francisco a decade later, as its flourishing gay community is hit with an unimaginable disaster.

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Biofilmography

Active in San Francisco’s indie film scene since the mid-1980s, David is best known as the producer/co-director of the feature-length documentary, The Cockettes.

Recipient of the LA Film Critics Award as Best Documentary of 2002, The Cockettes premiered at Sundance, was released theatrically, and was licensed for broadcast by The Sundance Channel, Logo, and the BBC. David was the first recipient in 1990 of the Sundance Institute/Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers.

• 2011 – We Were Here (Documentary)
• 2002 – The Cockettes (Documentary)
• 1991 – Complaints (Short Fiction)
• 1989 – Mothers (Short Fiction)
• 1988 – Songs from an Angel (Short Fiction)
• 1987 – 976 (Short Fiction)
• 1986 – Beauties Without a Cause (Short Fiction)

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