the hiv story project - overview & introduction

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The HIV Story Project will bring together San Francisco Bay Area residents living

with HIV/AIDS, award-winning filmmakers, and a network of public health & social service agencies addressing HIV/AIDS

issues within our diverse communities.

Our community not-for-profit partners will help identify and

engage 20 individuals with inspiring & diverse stories.

The filmmakers will mentor the individuals and assist them in

developing, producing and editing a high quality short film related to

their personal experience with HIV/AIDS.

The HIV Story Project will host a robust community web site & new media content portal intended to

engage global participants & worldwide partners in an ongoing

dialogue that marks the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS in 2011.

Online video competitions will invite community members from the

S.F. Bay Area & beyond to tell their own stories, while portal

users can exchange thoughts, share experiences & engage

with calls to action.

All finished shorts films will be posted on the web portal and

made available for our community partners to use in their own

educational programs and for outreach purposes.

The 20 best local shorts will be combinedinto a feature film compilation forpresentation at film festivals & TV

distribution. The final product will paint an unprecedented portrait of how people

thrive & survive in the face oflong term illness in today’s world.

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The HIV Story Project will build a traveling interactive storytelling booth & public media

installation that will engage participants in an on-going dialogue about HIV. This offline street level experiment will launch during PRIDE month - June

2010 – in San Francisco.

At every stage, The HIV Story Project will work directly with its community partners

& other non-profit groups to develop high-quality media projects that serve to further

their missions, programs and the communities they serve.

Thank you for your support!Donate now via PayPal

on our website: www.TheHIVStoryProject.org

The HIV Story Project Team:

Jörg Fockele

• Award winning film and television director & producer

• The HIV Story Project Director

Marc Smolowitz

• Academy Award nominated film, TV & new media producer

• The HIV Story Project Executive Producer

Ian Wolfley

• Activist, filmmaker and writer

• The HIV Story Project Associate Producer

Derrick Mapp

• HIV / AIDS social advocate & activist, Shanti

• The HIV Story Project Co-Curator & Community Consultant

Luis Guerra

• HIV / AIDS social advocate & graphic designer,Stop AIDS Project

• The HIV Story Project Community Consultant

Wendy Levy

• Award winning film, television & new media director / producer, BAVC

• The HIV Story Project Co-Curator & Media Consultant

Don Brown

• Professional Fundraiser, Fort Mason Center

• The HIV Story Project Development Consultant

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Here’s just a sampling of the award-winning filmmakers who’ve committed to working with us and

have lent their names to our efforts in our fundraising phase:

Cheryl Dunye• Award-winning director

& screenwriter whose work explores issues of class, race, and gender

Jenni Olson• Author, filmmaker, and

leading expert of queer cinema

Marc Huestis

• Award-winning director, event producer, and camp impresario

Deborah Craig

• Award-winning filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and public health official

Johnny Symons

• Award-winning documentary filmmaker

Debra A. Wilson

• Award-winning documentary director, producer, & writer

Billy Clift

• Writer & director of BABY JANE? and THE FAIRY TALE

Stuart Gaffney

• Documentary filmmaker and political activist

Harjant Gill

• Award-winning filmmaker and Point Foundation Scholar

Paulina Velasquez Solis

• Internationally-acclaimed multimedia visual artist & Fulbright Scholar

Amir Jaffer

• Filmmaker, music video director, and founder of Aisha Media

S. Leo Chiang

• Award-winning filmmaker

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

- SPECIAL THANKS - Mark Molnar, Karl Knapper, Jason Riggs

Special thanks to our friendsMOMS Pharmacy in San Francisco for their support…

Additional thanks to our friendsat Kink.com in San Francisco

for their support…

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