Edge Rewrite
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

Jump to content

Living with AIDS

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Living with AIDS
Directed byTina Di Feliciantonio
Distributed byPBS
Release date
  • 1988 (1988)

Living with AIDS is a 1987 documentary film directed by Tina Di Feliciantonio that achieved some recognition and awards within the film industry and earned Di Feliciantonio an Emmy.[1][2] Part of the AIDS Film Project, it was one of the first films broadcast on PBS about AIDS when it premiered on July 19, 1988.[3][4] The film tells the story of Todd Coleman and the people who cared for him during his final weeks.[5]

Coleman moved from Denver to San Francisco at the age of 16 and was diagnosed with AIDS at 21. Di Feliciantonio was a graduate student at Stanford and decided to film his care as a way of showing the world another side of the AIDS epidemic.[6]

References

[edit]
  1. Hitchens, Gordon (January 1, 1998). "New York EXPO Exposes Shorts". International Documentary Association. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  2. "Naked Eye Productions » Living with AIDS". Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  3. Thomas, Kevin (April 8, 1988). "AIDS Film Project to Launch Tour at Nuart". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  4. "Film Description | Living With AIDS | POV | PBS". POV | American Documentary Inc. January 23, 1988. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  5. "The AIDS Film Project". The Chicago Tribune. June 23, 1988. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  6. O'Connor, John J. (July 19, 1988). "Review/Television; Of Survivalism and the AIDS Crisis". The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
[edit]