How to Survive a Plague at Hackney Picturehouse

Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London
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This event ended on Sunday 1st of December 2013
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£7.20 (Standard) £5.70 (Concessions)
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Hackney Picturehouse
270 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1HE
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
London Fields 0.26 miles

On December 1, World Aids Day, Open City Docs present How to Survive a Plague at Hackney Picturehouse.

Nominated for the 2013 Oscar for best documentary, How to Survive a Plague is the story of two coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mould as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Christopher Hird, Dartmouth Films and featuring Simon Watney, Journalist and Activist, Professor Graham Hart, UCL Dean of Population Health, Professor Jon Weber, Imperial, Jefferiss Professor of Communicable Diseases and GU Medicine, Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Programme Director for the Integrated Cancer Programme at UCLPartners and Chief Medical Officer for London Cancer.

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