Please Talk to Kids About AIDS

Documentary Short

Director: Brian Hennessey

RT: 27:00mins

Friday September 28 2:00PM

Website: wwwv.ineeta.org/talkaids

“What a wonderful film. It was a brilliant way to convey such important messages.”

Richard Horton, editor-in-chief, the Lancet

Synopsis:  

A movie that can save lives.

In the donor-fatigued, jargon-laden, taboo-filled world of HIV/AIDS, two innocent and innovative voices revive our understanding and compassion. By asking their very own unscripted questions (that only a child could ask), two young girls age 4 and 6 get basic, honest, and fresh answers about the pandemic that defines our times. The result is a refreshing and thought-provoking film about our inability to make the epidemic understandable to all people because of our discomfort with issues of sex and sexuality. The fact that two kids can get to the bottom of it at the International AIDS Conference -- talking to experts, sexworkers, crossdressers and people living with HIV/AIDS-- is hilarious, hopeful and a little bit haunting . . . why have so many died because we can't talk about these subjects in an open and honest way?

Filmmaker Bio: 

Vice President of the Vineeta Foundation and President of Global Business Access Ltd and a writer, Brian has worked on presidential, senatorial and gubernatorial election campaigns and on personal staff of two congressmen.  He has worked for the United Nations as an election observer in Cambodia .  He was a conference coordinator at the State Department.  He has traveled extensively in (and written about) more than 125 countries, including a year-long circumnavigation of Africa by bike (subject of book).  This movie is the conclusion of a seven-year overland odyssey (with his daughters) tracking the extent of the battle against AIDS.  His most important title: dad.