PORTRAIT OF JASON

By Shirley CLARKE

MILESTONE FILM & VIDEO - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 1967

With the original material lost for many years, Milestone's restoration of PORTRAIT OF JASON will be one of the premiere classic film events of 2012.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2013
Forum
    • Year of production
    • 1967
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Black comedy
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Shirley CLARKE
    • Writer(s)
    • Shirley CLARKE
    • Producer(s)
    • Shirley CLARKE
    • Synopsis
    • A one-night interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne -- house boy, cabaret performer, and self proclaimed hustler. Shirley Clarke's remarkable documentary creates and incredible and intimate view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960's America.