In a desperate effort to save their own lives an improbable group of mostly HIV-positive young men and women broke the mould as radical warriors to take on Washington and the medical establishment. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s Oscar-nominated filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions the heated meetings the heartbreaking failures and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making. Blisteringly powerful How to Survive a Plague transports us back to a vital time of unbridled death political indifference and staggering resilience and constructs a commanding archetype for activism today.
A documentary about the man who brought us all out of the 'Celluloid Closet', Vito Russo changed the face of queer film theory forever. Now, director, Jeffrey Schwarz looks back at the man and the ways in which LGBT representation has changed over time. In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicised Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBT representation in the media. This documentary is about his life as an activist, an academic and a cinephile.
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