Queer Screen, ACON and Positive Life NSW present a special event screening and panel.
The screening of TRANSMISSION: THE JOURNEY FROM AIDS TO HIV will be introduced by Hon Jillian Skinner MP, Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research.
TRANSMISSION: THE JOURNEY FROM AIDS TO HIV (60 mins) records the personal journey of the renowned Swedish filmmaker Staffan Hidebrand. Since the earliest days of the epidemic Staffan has filmed the faces of AIDS around the world - starting in Sydney i...
Queer Screen, ACON and Positive Life NSW present a special event screening and panel.
The screening of TRANSMISSION: THE JOURNEY FROM AIDS TO HIV will be introduced by Hon Jillian Skinner MP, Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research.
TRANSMISSION: THE JOURNEY FROM AIDS TO HIV (60 mins) records the personal journey of the renowned Swedish filmmaker Staffan Hidebrand. Since the earliest days of the epidemic Staffan has filmed the faces of AIDS around the world - starting in Sydney in the grim early days of AIDS. Drawing on this unique archive, Transmission shows us the devastation caused by AIDS in Australia and in Cambodia, in the words of those closest to the disease, and contrasts this with the contemporary faces of those living with HIV, rather than dying of AIDS.
We meet the new generation of people living HIV, applying the hard-won lessons of the last three decades, and coping with the new realities of HIV in contemporary Australia and Cambodia. The linking thread in Transmission is Staffan Hildebrand's extraordinary commitment to the human dimensions of the greatest public health emergency of our times. It is a compelling, contemporary and moving film.
All proceeds go to support the production costs of the film.
Screens with: Face of AIDS Film Archive (7 mins) by Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
Panel - HIV: Then and Now moderated by Fran Kelly, presenter of ABC Radio National Breakfast. The panel includes Bill Whittaker AM, Chair NSW HIV Strategy Implementation Committee; Daniel Brace, Living Positive Victoria; Craig Cooper, Positive Life NSW; Abby Landy, The Institute of Many; and Sebastian Robinson, Actor.
Tickets are available for pre-drink function starting at 6pm at the Set Bar at Event Cinemas George St. One drink per ticket.