2012 David France: "How to Survive a Plague"

Journalist-turned-filmmaker David France unveils the courageous story of the activists and scientists who fought, sometimes with each other, to find a way to stop HIV from being a death sentence in "How to Survive a Plague," a U.S. Documentary Competition film at Sundance 2012.


Learn more about this film at and others at:
http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/sundance-institute-announces-doc...

Don't forget to check out the official website for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival at http://www.sundance.org/festival

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[dimacosi]

First "We were here" and now this.....It is great to have this two films to remember an era that seems long gone and is yet very recent.....After 15 years of HAART many people already forgot the darkest days of AIDS.....not to mention those who were too young to live through it....This keeps alive the memory of all those who fought and died of this terrible disease

[UnderAFullMoon]

what is the name of the picture at 0:32?

[thepeekamoose]

what an important story to see. thank you David.

[theonlyauntmad]

I remember telling my mother that no one deserved to die in this way (or any way) because they were gay. Always wondered where she even got such a thought. So glad there are drugs to help now. It was a horrible time for so many wonderful people.

[Blairtim69]

It was a scary time. Over 10,000 people dying a year, and the only government solution being debated was putting gay folk in concentration camps, and many preachers wanted us dead.

Whenever I hear a religious representative say how well they treated AIDS patients in the 80’s I get very angry and call them the liar they are.

No one came to our help, and religious folk couldn’t kick us quick enough or hard enough to please their Gods.

[LotusBlossomBook]

I am delighted and proud of David France for making this film. David was a classmate of mine in college during the late 70s and early 80s. Too many classmates, too many friends died of HIV before the government and our medical establishment took any action. My children do not know what a horrific event the AIDS epidemic was in the early years and the fight that had to be fought to overcome the prejudice and stigma to even get the nation to care. This is important history. -D. M. Kenyon