“Cinema Against AIDS” Draws Crowds
More than one thousand people attended “Cinema Against AIDS,” hosted by ten United Nations agencies and co-funders of the Joint United Nationas Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Moscow. The December 15 event was part of the annual International Film Festival on Human Rights.
This year’s program featured a collection of five documentaries (Red Ribbon in Moscow, FrontAIDS-Free Radicals, Flowers of Hope, Doomed to Survive and Serezha) covering different aspects of the epidemic and telling the stories of real people with HIV—neighbors, friends, and loved ones. A roundtable discussion entitled “Let Us Join Hands” followed the screenings and covered human rights issues and the persisting problems of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Vladimir Pozner, President of the Russian TV Academy, as well as representatives of government organizations, UN agencies, communities of PLWHA from Ukraine and Russia, cinematographers, and HIV-related government and non-governmental organizations participated in a lively discussion on the responsibility of the media and the movie industry to fight AIDS.
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| Lively roundtable discussions followed the screenings of five
documentaries which spoke to different aspects of the HIV epidemic |
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