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Tim Kirkman is an American screenwriter and director. Kirkman's feature film debut, Dear Jesse, was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures in 1998.
Tim Kirkman. Director: Loggerheads. Tim Kirkman's first feature film, the personal diary documentary "Dear Jesse," received Gotham, GLAAD, and Independent Spirit Award nominations, was named Best Documentary of the Year in 1997 by the Boston Society of Film Critics, won the Audience Award at Frameline, and screened in film festivals all over ...
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About — Tim Kirkman. Photo by Aaron Jay Young. Tim Kirkman’s first feature, the personal diary documentary DEAR JESSE, received numerous honors, including Emmy, Gotham, GLAAD and Independent Spirit Award nominations.
Dear Jesse is a 1998 American documentary film by Tim Kirkman that was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures in 1998. Using a first-person narrative style in the form of a "letter" to Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between himself — an openly gay man — and the staunchly anti ...
Tim Kirkman. Director: Loggerheads. Tim Kirkman's first feature film, the personal diary documentary "Dear Jesse," received Gotham, GLAAD, and Independent Spirit Award nominations, was named Best Documentary of the Year in 1997 by the Boston Society of Film Critics, won the Audience Award at Frameline, and screened in film festivals all over ...
Tim Kirkman. Adjunct Associate Professor. Affiliated Divisions: Division of Film & Television Production. Email: tkirkman@usc.edu. Tim Kirkman received Emmy, Gotham, GLAAD and Independent Spirit Award nominations for his first feature film, the first-person documentary feature, DEAR JESSE.
Inspired by the first-person documentaries of Ross McElwee, DEAR JESSE is gay filmmaker Tim Kirkman’s filmed “letter” to the notoriously anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms. Shot during the 1996 senatorial campaign, the film features interviews with opponents and supporters, as well as writers Allan Gurganus and Lee Smith.
