- Overview
- 2013 Film and Public Schedule
- Films A-Z
- Films by Strand
- Films by Director
- Films by Country
- Short Doc Programmes
- Howard Street Screen
- Mobile Homestead
- Shohei Imamura Retrospective
- The Special Jury Award
- The Sheffield Innovation Award
- The Sheffield Green Award
- The Sheffield Youth Jury Award
- The Sheffield Student Doc Award
- The Sheffield Short Doc Award
- The Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award
- AWFJ Award
- Videotheque
How to Survive a Plague
By the mid 1980s, Greenwich Village’s once thriving gay community was faced with an appalling scenario: astonishing numbers of people were dying by AIDs, and there was no cure in sight. Not only were hospitals turning away AIDs victims, but the community was subject to a brutal backlash of homophobia, with the corpses of AIDs victims even rejected by funeral parlours. Driven by desperation, the gay community were forced to become change-making activists – a role in which they soon found they excelled. Frustrated by a drug testing protocol that had not prioritised AIDs research – and in which new drugs took up to a decade of testing before approval – the community mobilised through very public demonstrations, and by equipping themselves with the scientific knowledge to spearhead a completely new strategy towards drug development. We follow the story of a number of prominent activists as they battle against the clock in a race for their lives.
Strands
- Official Website:
- howtosurviveaplague.com
- Festivals:
- Sundance Film Festival 2012, True/False Film Festival 2012
Credits
- Executive Producer:
- Dan Cogan, Joy Tomchin
Contact
Annie Roney
Founder
Ro*Co Films International
annie@rocofilms.com
+1 4153326471
Screening
17 Jun 20:45
- Showroom 2
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15 Jun 19:45
- ODEON
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