Watch the trailer for this documentary and you’ll know why I am requesting a screening in NYC.
“Many of you have been asking when you can see Blood Brother. We have created a screening request form for individuals as well as organizations to let us know that they want to see the film. The link below allows us to start collecting information so that we can rally to bring Blood Brother to your city/town if enough people sign up (so please share with everyone you know!). By signing up and having friends sign up we will be able to provide a rough idea of the desire to see the film in that area - so please have all of your family and friends sign up as well. The more interest, the more likelihood we’ll be able to screen there!
We will also alert you if/when it comes to your area. But this also allows organizations or groups interested in hosting a screening to tell us more about their idea. Please take a minute to fill out your information. Request form here”
The Plague Years, in Film and Memory
” ‘Remember when they burnt those people’s house down?’ Spencer Cox asks.
We are at a reunion dinner for about half a dozen people at a restaurant on the edge of Soho. I haven’t seen him since the mid-1990s. He looks unwell. It’s late September, 2012. On Nov. 30 we’re on a panel together for World AIDS Day at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. By Dec. 18 he is dead.
I don’t remember, so I look it up when I get back to D.C. In 1987, in Arcadia, Florida, Clifford and Louise Ray’s house mysteriously burned to the ground after a court ordered the local schools had to admit their HIV-positive hemopheliac sons, despite community objections. Other families had already been pulling their kids out of the school, which also faced multiple phoned-in bomb threats. The family decided their only option was to give up and leave town…”
read more at The Atlantic
I finally got around watching this documentary.
I have learned that the reason I can live with HIV/AIDS now is due to the sacrifices of the HIV/AIDS activists.
A Story of AIDS, From the Beginning
“Last Wednesday night, David France, the director of the documentary ‘How to Survive a Plague,’ made his way to the Open Society Institute in Columbus Circle for a question-and-answer session and a screening of his film, which is about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Afterward, he was mobbed by well-wishers and advice-seekers…”
via NYTimes
