About this Event
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.
BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present this talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS” at the Flatiron Project Space, Thursday, March 20 — Saturday, April 5, 2025.
Filmmaker David France is the director and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated and critically-acclaimed, , 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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
SVA, 133 W 21st St, 133 West 21st Street, Room 101C, New York, United States
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