Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
May 12, 2003 Forum Event with Rory Kennedy.
Film preview followed by a panel discussion.
At the dawn of a new millennium, AIDS has evolved from a health crisis into a dynamic catastrophe that threatens economic and political stability on a global scale. And while medical advances now allow victims in the developed world to achieve longer-term survival with the disease, its rapid spread in India, sub-Saharan Africa and South America threatens further devastation, hindering development and causing incalculable human suffering.
With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rory Kennedy is producing and directing a feature length documentary that will give this complex tragedy a human face and help transform overwhelming statistics into compelling, human stories.
"Pandemic," a two-hour feature documentary, will follow five people living with AIDS in different parts of the world: a truck driver and his family in Tamil Nadu, India; a dying former sex worker in Thailand; three separate families of AIDS orphans in Uganda; an I.V. drug user in Moscow; and a gay HIV-positive student in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film will use their personal stories to illuminate the scope of the epidemic and the ways that various countries are addressing it. Ultimately, this work will be part of a comprehensive educational and outreach campaign, with the goals of increasing awareness and understanding of the disease and focusing on the most effective methods of combating its further spread.
For more information: http://www.moxiefirecracker.com/frameset_pandemic_sub.html