Additional information for Vito, which has a domestic theatrical release set for 2011. The film is being distributed by HBO Films and has not yet been rated. Vito has a total running time of 93 minutes.
93min
October 14, 2011
USA
October 22, 2011
USA
February 11, 2012
Germany
April 20, 2012
USA
June 16, 2012
USA
July 12, 2012
USA
July 13, 2012
Spain
July 23, 2012
USA
September 15, 2012
Japan
October 21, 2012
Denmark
November 09, 2012
Taiwan
November 11, 2012
Sweden
December 01, 2012
Hong Kong
February 23, 2013
UK
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The story of Vito Russo, founding father of the gay liberation movement, author of "The Celluloid Closet," and vociferous AIDS activist in the 1980s.
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar called the Stonewall took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted on Christopher Street, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-old film student, was among the crowd. Over the next twenty years until his death from AIDS in 1990, Vito would go on to become one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT communitys fight for equal rights. He was a pivotal part of three well-known organizations during their formative years: GAA (Gay Activists Alliance), which staged subversive works of protest performance art to secure rights and dignity for all gay people; GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), formed to ensure that media representation of gays and lesbians was accurate; and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), a guerilla activist group that turned the fury over President Reagans refusal to do anything about AIDS into a series of highly telegenic acts of civil disobedience. In the midst of his commitment to activism, Vito was also a prolific writer. His seminal book The Celluloid Closet explored the ways in which gays and lesbians were portrayed on film, what lessons those characters taught gay and straight audiences, and how those negative images were at the root of societys homophobia. Even before the book was published, Vito was taking The Celluloid Closet on the road, traveling to gay film festivals and college campuses for an entertaining and informative lecture-slash-clip show that intertwined Vitos love of show business and radical gay politics. He continued writing, lecturing, speaking out and acting up until just months before his death.
Jeffrey Schwarz
Director(s)
Writer(s)
Jon Glover
associate producer
Philip Harrison
co-producer
John Hoffman
supervising producer: HBO
Lotti Pharriss Knowles
co-producer
Sheila Nevins
executive producer
Adam Robitel
associate producer
Jeffrey Schwarz
producer
Bryan Singer
executive producer
Steven Solomon
line producer
Taryn Teigue
associate producer
Producer(s)
Miriam Cutler
Composer(s)
Herself
Phyllis Antonellis
Himself
Richard Barrios
Himself
Richard Berkowitz
Himself
Lenny Bloom
Himself
Jay Blotcher
Himself
Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Himself
Joseph Brewer
Himself (archive footage)
Lee Brewster
Himself (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
Himself (archive footage)
Marcus A. Conant
(archive footage)
Bette Davis
Herself (archive footage)
Nancy Davis
(archive footage)
Doris Day
Himself
Michael Denneny
Herself (archive footage)
Mama Jean DeVente
(archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
Himself
David Ehrenstein
Himself
Rob Epstein
Himself
Arthur Evans
Mark Wallace (archive footage)
Albert Finney
Himself
Jim Fouratt
Himself
Jeffrey Friedman
Christina (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
(archive footage)
Judy Garland
Himself
Jon Gartenberg
Himself
Howard Grossman
Himself
Robert Hawk
Himself (archive footage)
Jesse Helms
Karen Wright / Joanna Wallace (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn
(archive footage)
Rock Hudson
Herself
Karla Jay
Herself (archive footage)
Marsha P. Johnson
Himself
Arnie Kantrowitz
Himself (archive footage)
Lester Kinsolving
Himself
Larry Kramer
Himself
Steve Krotz
Himself
Michael Lumpkin
Martha Dobie (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine
Himself
Lou Maletta
Himself
Eric Marcus
This film has not yet been rated.
Vito
Director(s)
associate producer
Philip Harrison
co-producer
John Hoffman
supervising producer: HBO
Lotti Pharriss Knowles
co-producer
Sheila Nevins
executive producer
Adam Robitel
associate producer
Jeffrey Schwarz
producer
Bryan Singer
executive producer
Steven Solomon
line producer
Taryn Teigue
associate producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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