Documentary about Family Dynamics during the AIDS Crisis

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Monday June 02, 2014 · 10:21 AM PDT

2014/06/02 · 10:21

no image description available — My uncle Miguel and his partner in the hospital, three years before Miguel died of AIDS

My uncle Miguel and his partner in the hospital, three years before Miguel died of AIDS

There have been a lot of movies coming out about the early years of the AIDS crisis lately. The Normal Heart just premiered to great fanfare, last year we had the Oscar-nominated How To Survive A Plague and Dallas Buyers Club, United in Anger came out in 2012, and We Were Here the year before. This wave of attention to one of the most devastating events in US history is badly needed. When AIDS first hit, the entire country was asleep at the wheel, and the consequences were nothing short of catastrophic. And yet, we seem to have failed twice--first to do anything to prevent the epidemic, and second to fully reconcile the wreckage left behind. I'm now directing a documentary about my uncle, who died of AIDS in 1987. The film is nearing completion, and we are in the middle of a fundraising campaign to finish it.

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