Harvey Milk Francisco had no idea. It was just a really brief, provincial, localized current events story that the mayor and a city council member in San Francisco were killed. It didn't have much reverberation." Milk's life has been the subject of a musical theater production; an eponymous opera; a cantata; a children's picture book; a French-language historical novel for young-adult readers; and the biopic "Milk", released in 2008 after 15 years in the making. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, and won two Academy Awards for Best
Bay Area Television Archive San Francisco's Coit Tower in November 2009, as part of the official 40th Anniversary remembrance program for the occupation. Archival footage from BATA features in Gus Van Sant's 2008 Oscar-winning biographical film of the gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk Milk (film), in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's 2010 Howl (2010 film) biopic of beat poet Allen Ginsberg and also in David Weissman and Bill Weber's 2011 documentary film about the AIDS crisis in San Francisco We Were Here (film). Bay Area Television Archive The Bay Area Television Archive (BATA) is a regional moving image archive. It preserves and