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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

How to survive a plague [videorecording] / Public Square Films presents a France/Tomchin film ; in association with Ford Foundation/Justfilms, Impact Partners and Little Punk ; directed by David France ; written by David France, T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk ; produced by Howard Gertler, David France.

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Sundance Selects : MPI Media Group, [2013]

Description:

1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"[T]he story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time."--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

ACT UP (Organization)

AIDS activists -- United States.

AIDS (Disease) -- Research.

AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects.

AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

France, David, 1959-

Richman, T. Woody.

Walk, Tyler H.

Gertler, Howard.

Staley, Peter.

Kramer, Larry.

Public Square Films.

Ford Foundation.

Justfilms (Firm)

Impact Partners (Firm)

Little Punk (Firm)

Sundance Selects (Firm)

MPI Media Group.

Notes:

Originally produced in 2012.

Special features: Deleted scenes; trailer.

Director of photography, Derek Wiesehahn ; edited by T. Woody Richman,Tyler H. Walk ; original score by Stuart Bogie & Luke O'Malley ; featuring the songs of Arthur Russell.

Featuring Peter Staley and Larry Kramer.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

In English with optional English and Spanish subtitles. Subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing [SDH].

WINNER: New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best First Film -- WINNER: Gotham Awards, Best Documentary -- WINNER: Boston Film Critics/Boston Online Film Critics/Central Ohio Film Critics Association, Best Documentary -- WINNER: Ida Documentary Awards, Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Film Maker Award -- NOMINEE: Film Independent Spirit Awards, Best Documentary.

ISBN:

0788616080

9780788616082

Publisher Number:

IFC9834

Other Number:

819123809

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

352306

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 362.19697 How to s

Medium:

[videorecording]