Coming to Independent Lens tonight, Monday, February 29: WILHEMINA’S WAR
June Cross’ look at life with HIV in the rural American South had its world premiere at DOC NYC last year. It has also screened at LA’s Pan African and Black Hollywood film fests.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
While the perception of AIDS in America has changed from the death sentence it once was to a disease managed by medicine, in the deep South, HIV continues to claim the lives of rural black women in epidemic numbers. Despite facing institutional and personal obstacles every step of the way, 62-year-old Wilhemina Dixon works tirelessly to combat the stigma and care for her daughter and granddaughter, both HIV+.
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