HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE

82 State Street,Newburyport MA 01950

05 June, 2023

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Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is pleased to partner with Newburyport Pride for a special one-time screening of the landmark 2012 documentary HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE at 7 p.m. Monday, June 5 at the Screening Room, 82 State St., Newburyport. Director David France was a journalist on the front lines of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and ‘90s. His film, which was nominated for an Academy Award and has a 98 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, documents the incredible work of the protest group ACT UP, which demanded better treatment and medical research for people living with AIDS. The success of ACT UP has inspired other social protest movements of recent times, including #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and March for Our Lives and Moms Demand Action, the coalitions in support of gun control. In his book on the essential documentaries, “Well Documented,” author Ian Haydn Smith writes that HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE captures “an extraordinary victory for a group that had little money, faced a seemingly insurmountable opposition and were racing against time.” It’s a powerful reminder for our own troubled times, and we are proud to present it.