David France, Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS
SVA Honors Program New York, NY
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David France, Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS
Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker David France speaks on the achievements, in the midst of terrible necessities, of AIDS activists in art and politics.
In conjunction with the exhibition Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS at the Flatiron Project Space, March 20-April 5, 2025.
Filmmaker David France is the director and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated and critically-acclaimed, How to Survive a Plague, the documentary and subsequent book about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The film earned him The John Schlesinger Award (given to a first-time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker) from the Provincetown International Film Festival and the PBS Independent Lens broadcast won the Peabody Award and was nominated for two Emmys. David is also a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in national publications, such as New York magazine, Newsweek, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and GQ.
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SVA Honors Program (View)
133 W 21st St., #101c
New York, NY 10011
United States