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Title: Todd Wilson papers
Dates: 1976-2003
Collection Number: 2005-11
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3.75 linear feet (3 cartons)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection documents the professional work of award-winning San Francisco filmmaker Todd C. Wilson. Wilson (1963-2005)
was best known for his films that focused on interracial gay couples. The bulk of the collection contains Wilson’s 8mm films
and photographs, scripts, interview data, production materials, shooting schedules, and headshots and other casting information
for Wilson’s films, Rice & Potatoes (1998), Under One Roof (2002) and Can’t Buy Me Love (2006).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Todd Wilson papers. Collection Number: 2005-11. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Jack Curis Dubowsky on October 6, 2005.
Biography/Administrative History
This collection documents the professional work of award-winning San Francisco filmmaker Todd C. Wilson. Wilson (1963-2005)
was best known for his films that focused on interracial gay couples.
Scope and Content of Collection
The bulk of the collection contains 8mm films – none of them apparently Wilson’s work – and photographs, scripts, interview
data, production materials, shooting schedules, and headshots and other casting information for Wilson’s films, Rice & Potatoes
(1998), Under One Roof (2002) and Can’t Buy Me Love (2006). There are also materials documenting Wilson’s high school days
in Troy, NY, college coursework, appointment books, and a sketch diary. The films and photographs are unsorted. GSSO linked
terms: http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000297; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001601; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_006371;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001443
Motion pictures
People of color
Gay men