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Taboo Review: Doc Remembers Amos Guttman and Mentors Lost

by Pat Mullen
June 4, 2024
Festivals/Reviews

The career of filmmaker Amos Guttman receives a welcome tribute and looks back on groundbreaking works like Drifting and Amazing Gracein Taboo.

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Nik Sheehan Talks No Sad Songs, Collaboration, and Queer Resiliency in the AIDS Crisis

by Ry Pembroke
July 25, 2023
Interviews

Nik Sheehan discusses his collection of films--No Sad Songs, Symposium: Ladder of Love, The Drawing Masters, and God's Fool--as they hit MUBI.

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Commitment to Life Review: A Hollywood AIDS Story

by Pat Mullen
May 25, 2023
Festivals/Reviews

Jeffrey Schwarz looks at the AIDS crisis and the celebrities and activists who fought for the LGBTQ+ community in the talking heads doc Commitment to Life.

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Review: Poitras’ Masterpiece

by Pat Mullen
September 14, 2022
Reviews/TIFF

Laura Poitras delivers a masterpiece with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and its portrait of photographer Nan Goldin's fight against Big Pharma.

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Tramps Director Kevin Hegge on Capturing an Era of Immortal Coolness

by Pat Mullen
May 26, 2022
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with Tramps! director Kevin Hegge on exploring the era of the New Romantics and how growing old doesn't mean getting boring.

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10 to Watch for World AIDS Day: Screening the Pandemic

by Matthew Hays
December 1, 2020
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On World AIDS Day, films like

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Typhoid Mary No More

by Matthew Hays
July 23, 2019
Interviews

In Killing Patient Zero, Toronto filmmaker Laurie Lynd unravels the twisted story of Gaetan Dugas, the Quebecois flight attendant who was wrongly labelled the man who brought HIV to North America.

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Review: ‘Nothing without Us’

by Amy Siegel
April 28, 2018
Hot Docs/Reviews

Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS (USA, 67 minutes) Dir. Harriet Hirshorn Programme: Silence Breakers (International Premiere)   Nothing Without Us demands we learn the names of women activists

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Doc Classics: No Sad Songs

by Matthew Hays
November 1, 2010
Features

It’s hard to believe, but a quarter-century has passed since Nik Sheehan made the first Canadian documentary response to the AIDS epidemic, No Sad Songs.

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