In Their Faces!
Posted on July 30, 2012 by A&U in Movies & TV, The Arts
A New Film on ACT UP Traces Twenty-Five Years of Channeling Outrage into Action by Larry Buhl In April 1987, 300 members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) staged its first demonstration: marching on Wall Street to protest the high cost and lack of availability of HIV treatment medications. In April 2012, ACT UP [...]
Loss & Serendipity
Posted on July 17, 2012 by A&U in Features
With The Serko Project, the essence of a personality is conveyed across generations, through new media and old by Karen Fleur Tofti-Tufarelli At a Serko family wedding in September, 2011, a lovingly assembled handmade quilt panel was briefly the center of attention. The panel would be included as one of the 47,000 panels of the [...]
ACT UP! The Movie
Posted on July 5, 2011 by A&U in Movies & TV, The Arts
A new film about ACT UP is in the works! Producers/directors Scott Robbe and Jerry Kolber have been feverishly working for the past three years to bring a story about the world’s first AIDS activists to the screen. As a grass-roots and radically democratic movement, ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) has been instrumental [...]
ACT UP! the movie
Posted on May 16, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy
A new film about ACT UP! is in the works! Producers/directors Scott Robbe and Jerry Kolbe have been feverishly working for the past three years to bring a story about the world’s first AIDS activists to the screen. As a grass-roots and radically democratic movement, ACT UP! was instrumental in challenging power structures invested in [...]
