Filmakers - AIDS

AIDS

16 film(s) found

	AIDS at Issue: Coping with an Epidemic This program gives voice to the many moral, legal and ethical concerns raised by the epidemic. What steps should society take to protect people? more »
	AIDS in Africa This report on the AIDS crisis in Africa shows that the disease cuts across the entire population, not just drug abusers and homosexuals. Checking the spread of the disease is complicated by poverty and cultural mores. more »
	AIDS: The Woman's Story The film travels to Kenya, Brazil and Thailand to tell the personal stories of women with AIDS. Set against a background of disease, poverty and social subjugation this is a story of vitality and will power, and of women who have the courage to fight against reigning cultural and religious traditions. more »
	All of Us This is a deeply personal exploration of the bedroom politics that make black women especially vulnerable to AIDS infection. The film follows a young female doctor, working in the South Bronx, as she gives medical and emotional support to her afflicted patients. more »
	Condoms, Fish and Circus Tricks This film looks at the efforts to alleviate suffering and spread the message of HIV/AIDS prevention to the young more »
	Cry of the Owl In Namibia, in one of the most desolate regions of Africa, lives the Himba tribe, one of the last tribes trying to maintain a traditional way of life. With the modern world pressing in on them and the real menace of HIV/AIDS, the Himba find their situation threatened from all sides. more »
	Family Album A wholesome young couple bringing up children in a farming community discovers they are both HIV positive. This inspiring film shows the ground swell of support they got from their neighbors. more »
	Living Positive: Women and AIDS Portraits of women of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, who are living full lives although HIV/AIDS positive. more »
	Living with AIDS A Black European journalist in Zambia exposes the untold story of AIDS in Africa; how poverty and the complex nature of African culture and sexuality are hampering efforts to eradicate this horrifying disease. more »
	Odô Yá!: Life with AIDS This is the affirming story of how Candomble, a Brazilian religion of African origin, has become a source of strength and power for a group of AIDS sufferers in Brazil's cities. more »
	Race Against Time: The AIDS Crisis in Africa The AIDS crisis in Africa is an epidemic of staggering proportions. Thirty-six million people are infected with the HIV virus worldwide, with over 25 million of them in Africa, and a staggering number of Africans -- 17 million -- have died. This film is about the inspiring work of Canadian Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa as he searches for solutions to the pandemic ravaging the continent. more »
	Sex and Other Matters of Life & Death A teenage theater company educates peers about AIDS prevention. more »
	The Silent Killer: AIDS in South Africa South Africa is hard hit by the AIDS epidemic, which reflects the social, racial , and economic divisions that still continue. more »
	Sinesipho: Why Must I Die? The epidemic of AIDS in South Africa is huge and the government has been lax in addressing the problem.This film shows how an HIV- positive mother, Busi Maqungo, living in a shanty town in South Africa, has become an AIDS activist. more »
	To Live is Better Than to Die A real-life picture of an ordinary Chinese family devoured by a disease caused by official negligence and then being persecuted by the government in their struggle for help more »
	Women, HIV And AIDS Educates women about safe sex and other issues that relate to women regarding this epidemic. more »