We’re delighted to announce that ACON is teaming up with the producers and distributors of Holding The Man to become an official community partner of this great new Aussie film.

The film in based on the much loved memoir of Timothy Conigrave, who worked as a health promotion officer at ACON in the early 1990s developing HIV prevention campaigns and providing HIV education and support for young gay men.

Stay tuned for some exciting news about how ACON will be supporting the film which tells a wonderfully moving love story set in the early years of Australia’s HIV crisis.

Watch the trailer for the highly anticipated HOLDING THE MAN below:

HOLDING THE MAN will be released in cinemas across Australia on 27 August.

Directed by Neil Armfield this remarkable true life story stars Ryan Corr and Craig Stott as Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo, whose enduring love affair has been immortalised in both Tim’s cult-classic memoir and Tommy Murphy’s award-winning stage play of the same name. Murphy has adapted Tim’s book for the screen and the film also stars Kerry Fox, Sarah Snook, Camilla Ah Kin, Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia.