Dear Jesse
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Tim Kirkman
Lee Smith
Eloise Vaughn
Andrew George
Tim Kirkman
Gene Price
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A gay New York filmmaker, Tim Kirkman, returns home to North Carolina to examine his relationship to the anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms: A series of coincidences marks the lives of Tim Kirkman and Jesse Helms. Both are from Monroe, NC, and were raised as Southern Baptists. Both attended Wingate College for year before transferring to other schoold. Both worked in journalism and radio. And, according to Kirkman, both have been obsessed with homosexual men for the last 20 years.
Director
Tim Kirkman
Cast
Lee Smith
Eloise Vaughn
Andrew George
Tim Kirkman
Gene Price
Myron Williams
Patsy Clarke
Ann Owens
Allan Gurganus
Dr. Jerry Mcgee
Jesse Helms
Dr. H Mitch Simpson
Mike Nelson
Jerry Kirkman
Hal Crowther
Sue And Ruth
Shane Webster
Rose Vaughn Williams
Karen Brown
Mandy Carter
Angela Brady
The Kirkman Family
James Mcafee
Jaki Shelton Greene
Crew
Chuck Bludsworth
Karen Brown
Jeremy Carr
Mandy Carter
Joe Caterini
Norwood Cheek
Norwood Cheek
Patsy Clarke
John Crooke
John Crooke
Hal Crowther
Caitlin Dixon
Andrea Duckett
Jaki Shelton Greene
Allan Gurganus
Jesse Helms
Samuel Henriques
Gill Holland
Jerry Kirkman
Tim Kirkman
Tim Kirkman
Joe Klotz
Norman Lear
Mary Beth Mann
James Mcafee
Dr. Jerry Mcgee
Ashley Mckinney
Ashley Mckinney
Mike Nelson
Ann Owens
Dr. H Mitch Simpson
Lee Smith
Sean Uyehara
Eloise Vaughn
Shane Webster
Myron Williams
Rose Vaughn Williams
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States July 1998
Released in United States June 1997
Released in United States June 1998
Released in United States November 6, 1998
Released in United States on Video August 10, 1999
Released in United States September 1997
Released in United States Summer June 26, 1998
Shown at Boston Film Festival September 5-18, 1997.
Shown at New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 5-15, 1997.
Shown at OUTFEST '98: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival July 9-20, 1998.
Shown at San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival June 18-28, 1998.
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival May 21 - June 14, 1998.
Shown at the Independent Feature Film Market (IFFM) in New York City September 14-21, 1997.
Feature directorial debut for Tim Kirkman.
Broadcast in USA over Cinemax as part of series "Cinemax Reel Life" January 19, 1999.
Began shooting April 1996.
Completed shooting June 1996.
Note: After Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998 in a gay-bashing incident, Kirkman realized he had interviewed the University of Wyoming student for his documentary while Shepard was enrolled at North Carolina's Catawba College. Culling his outtakes, Kirkman found the fottage, in which Shepard stated he did not believe that Helms represents the feelings of North Carolinians toward gays. Kirkman has appended this two minute sequence as an epilogue to "Dear Jesse" in memory of Shepard.
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival May 21 - June 14, 1998.)
Released in United States June 1997 (Shown at New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 5-15, 1997.)
Released in United States June 1998 (Shown at San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival June 18-28, 1998.)
Released in United States Summer June 26, 1998
Released in United States July 1998 (Shown at OUTFEST '98: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival July 9-20, 1998.)
Released in United States on Video August 10, 1999
Released in United States September 1997 (Shown at Boston Film Festival September 5-18, 1997.)
Released in United States September 1997 (Shown at the Independent Feature Film Market (IFFM) in New York City September 14-21, 1997.)
Released in United States November 6, 1998 (NuArt; Los Angeles)
