This Monday's showing is 'A Closer Walk'
j | 19.04.2008 15:25
In association with the Stop Aids society
University of ManchesterStudents Union
21st April 20087:30pm 2nd floor Meeting Room 1
FREE ENTRY
With Q&A
University of ManchesterStudents Union
21st April 20087:30pm 2nd floor Meeting Room 1
FREE ENTRY
With Q&A
And don't forget the Reclaim the University demo this Tuesday!
More details soon or check out:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12338733681
And the Solidarity with Striking Teachers Lecturers and Public Sector Workers demo on Thursday! Details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24971812568&ref=nf
THIS MONDAY: A CLOSER WALK
'If any film can be labeled the definitive study of the global impact of AIDS, it's A Closer Walk, a masterfully crafted documentary that takes viewers to the epicenters of the AIDS plague, from Africa to Asia to Europe to America' Jack Garner, Movie Review A film about AIDS in the world.
A story about the way the world is. A Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontationwith the global AIDS pandemic, exploring the intricate relationship between health, dignity and human rights, and elucidates the harsh realities of AIDS in the world. The film is a ten year project conceived in 1996 by Robert Bilheimer,an Academy Award nominee, along with the late Jonathan Mann, the visionary public health leader and human rights activist who was the architect of the World Health Organisation's global program onHIV/AIDS.
It reveals both the human costs of AIDS but also the political failings of the international community to come to grips with the problem and is as reflective of the situation and character of those who have not dealt with it as those who have. Filmed on four continents over a period of three years, more than 50 women, men, and young people were interviewed or profiled.
It documents the human face of the disease, moving from a child dying of AIDS in a Ugandan hospital to a Kansas City activist distributing free condoms on a street corner. Through these portraits, A Closer Walkmakes the case that the world imperils itself by continuing to ignore the scale of the disease. It describes not only the breadth and destructive power of the pandemic, but its underlying social causes as well. It indicts the inaction of wealthier countries regarding the disease, which is now the worst plague in history and will soon have killed more than all the wars of the 20th century.
More details soon or check out:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12338733681 And the Solidarity with Striking Teachers Lecturers and Public Sector Workers demo on Thursday! Details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24971812568&ref=nf THIS MONDAY: A CLOSER WALK
'If any film can be labeled the definitive study of the global impact of AIDS, it's A Closer Walk, a masterfully crafted documentary that takes viewers to the epicenters of the AIDS plague, from Africa to Asia to Europe to America' Jack Garner, Movie Review A film about AIDS in the world.
A story about the way the world is. A Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontationwith the global AIDS pandemic, exploring the intricate relationship between health, dignity and human rights, and elucidates the harsh realities of AIDS in the world. The film is a ten year project conceived in 1996 by Robert Bilheimer,an Academy Award nominee, along with the late Jonathan Mann, the visionary public health leader and human rights activist who was the architect of the World Health Organisation's global program onHIV/AIDS.
It reveals both the human costs of AIDS but also the political failings of the international community to come to grips with the problem and is as reflective of the situation and character of those who have not dealt with it as those who have. Filmed on four continents over a period of three years, more than 50 women, men, and young people were interviewed or profiled.
It documents the human face of the disease, moving from a child dying of AIDS in a Ugandan hospital to a Kansas City activist distributing free condoms on a street corner. Through these portraits, A Closer Walkmakes the case that the world imperils itself by continuing to ignore the scale of the disease. It describes not only the breadth and destructive power of the pandemic, but its underlying social causes as well. It indicts the inaction of wealthier countries regarding the disease, which is now the worst plague in history and will soon have killed more than all the wars of the 20th century.
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