IFC Obtains Rights For 'How to Survive a Plague'

  Even though we are not over the bridge, we are no longer crossing the part of water below with the crocodiles waiting to eat you up if you fell. We are at the end of the epidemic as far as knowing how to close the leaking faucet and even though it still leaks there no need for a flood. The information now, (some of it not available to all) is astounding as far as containment and transmission. I of coarse speak of the industrialized nations that have been able through drugs and knowledge change the coarse of the epidemic. In general now a-days for a person to be infected by another person when both know their status which ever it might be, its very hard. Particularly when we are talking about a person with no detectable viral load, which coincidently is the new way according to the CDC to determine if the person is capable to unintentionally transmit to another person. 

All this should be fascination, but we don’t hear much about this since Hollywood stopped making movies about dying AIDS patients. It seems Hollywood never recovered from the epidemic and it has never bother to follow the advances. But to get to today there is a lot history and a lot events that would make any movie that is well made a medium of entertainment and knowledge to those that watch.

We now hear about IFC having conquered the fear. On  Deadline.com/new-york/ we hear the following (adamfoxie*):

We’re hearing that IFC has scored another picture, its third in 12 hours, acquiring rights to the lauded documentary How To Survive A Plague for its Sundance Selects label. The David France-written and -directed film charts the remarkable story of how ACT-UP and Treatment Action Group overcame a pattern of apathy by politicians toward an AIDS scourge that was ravaging the gay community. Their activism and inventiveness transformed a death sentence into a manageable and treatable disease by infiltrating the pharmaceutical industry and identifying new drugs and speeding them through the trial phase to AIDS sufferers in short order. The docu got a rousing response when premiering Sunday at Temple Theater. Submarine brokered the deal.

Park City, UT (January 26, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that the company is acquiring North American rights to David France’s documentary HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE. The film, with a screenplay by France, T. Woody Richman, and Tyler H. Walk, wasproduced by France and Howard Gertler. Joy Tomchin and Dan Cogan executive produced the project, which was made in association with Ford Foundation/JustFilms, Impact Partners, and Little Punk.