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This feature documentary film is intended to include any and all voices on the etiology of AIDS and what HIV means to different people. The people involved in the documentary will be HIV victims and their loved ones, scientists, doctors, journalists, and AIDS activists giving their own input on what AIDS is and their own personal stories and opinions involving HIV and/or AIDS. What will make the film unique is the exploration of science in conjunction with psychology in whether or not a person stays healthy with an HIV diagnosis. Because HIV is said to act vastly differently in each individual and in each territory of the world, factors for progression, or lack there of, to ill health are said to vary from genetics, different strains of the virus, environmental, toxicological and dietary. But adding psychological factors into the equation is something that is oft overlooked in being necessary to do when looking at what can keep a person healthy. There has been a common thread amongst those surviving beyond 10 years with an HIV diagnosis, and that is that they had decided in their mind that they were going to live. Was this a big enough factor in helping them stay alive, though? For some, the medications have been the miracle drugs that give them hope for survival, while for others, their rejection of conventional medications seems to be their motivation to stay alive. There are many cases with varying and unique opinions in between. The documentary will document mainstream points of view on AIDS that are conventionally recognized, and shall also include those whose opinions are often suppressed or taken for granted.
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Esther Ancrum, a recent graduate from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles will be using her skills and knowledge in general film making to create her own documentary, “Or Live,” about the human experience that ensues resulting from the life-changing moment when one receives a positive result on an HIV test. Her documentary will focus on those who are still living, but will not disregard those who have already died or seem to be on the path of death. Esther’s interest lies in finding out how much impact a person’s psychology can have in the game of survival for a person testing positive for HIV. Though she has not personally been affected by anyone close to her receiving a positive HIV result, she became interested when her friend Nicole told her that she has been collecting interviews with all types of HIV Positive survivors, some of whom have remained healthy since the beginning of the epidemic.
Nicole Swern, a recent graduate from Dodge College in Orange County, is using her savvy in documentary filmmaking to make a documentary that attempts to answer all her burning questions in the world of AIDS. “HIV, A Whole Different Story” is about the information that people take for granted about HIV and AIDS. Her documentary will focus on the very differing and fairly unbalanced viewpoints of doctors and scientists dwelling on all angles of HIV’s severity or lack there of, as a sexually transmitted and blood-born virus. Nicole’s interest lies in how HIV can act so vastly differently from person to person and whether or not this is due to genetic reasons, different strains or mutations of the virus, environmental or health reasons, etc. How does a person’s psychological health play into how healthy they remain with an HIV or AIDS diagnosis? And how soon after an HIV diagnosis will an AIDS diagnosis come into play, in turn begging the question of how soon is death?
