Quiet Heroes
Saturday April 21st 2018, 2:30 pm
Regal Cinemas South Beach
1120 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Runtime: 69 minutes
Language: English
Director: Jenny Mackenzie, Jared Ruga, and Amanda Stoddard
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary, Gay, Historical, Political
EAST COAST PREMIERE
In Salt Lake City, the religious monoculture severely complicated the AIDS crisis. Patients received no support from and were even exiled from the political, religious, and medical communities. Mormon culture encouraged gay men to marry women and have a family to cure themselves of their "affliction". This counsel led to secret affairs and accidental marital transmissions. In the entire state and intermountain region there was only one doctor to serve all HIV/AIDS patients. This is the story of her fight to save the lives of a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
PRECEDED BY SHORT FILM
The Red Tree (L’Albero Rosso)
Directed By: Paul Rowley, 22 minutes
Italy, In Italian with English subtitles
In Salt Lake City, the religious monoculture severely complicated the AIDS crisis. Patients received no support from and were even exiled from the political, religious, and medical communities. Mormon culture encouraged gay men to marry women and have a family to cure themselves of their "affliction". This counsel led to secret affairs and accidental marital transmissions. In the entire state and intermountain region there was only one doctor to serve all HIV/AIDS patients. This is the story of her fight to save the lives of a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
PRECEDED BY SHORT FILM
The Red Tree (L’Albero Rosso)
Directed By: Paul Rowley, 22 minutes
Italy, In Italian with English subtitles