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Mitchell Rabin explores a new film each week with director interviews.
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Tuesday Jan 20, 2015
Tuesday Jan 20, 2015
Mitchell’s guest is veteran film maker Joan Shenton, who will discuss her new joint product with Andi Reiss, “Positive Hell”, about a group of Spanish HIV-positives, who have either never taken AIDS drugs or took them only for a short time. All were severe IV drug addicts or, in the case of their medical advisor, Dr. Manuel Garrido, a severe alcoholic. All of them conquered their addiction, and reclaimed their health, eventually rejecting their AIDS diagnosis.
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Dr. Garrido is not just the medical advisor, but he has lived his advice, as he is also HIV-positive, and has also declined AIDS drugs.
The experience of Joan has been hard. Her career as a successful medical documentary producer was destroyed in the early 1990s after a documentary first won a major award and then was the subject of a “Star Chamber” investigation.
Joan is the instigator of the Immune Resource Foundation, that has a huge archive of critical AIDS documentaries and other video footage. Also with Andi Reiss she recently co-produced the film “Positively False: Birth of a Heresy”and is republishing her book this year, also called “Positively False”.
