Hope in the Time of AIDS

Without sanitizing for a heartbeat the devastation of the disease, Hope In The Time of AIDS travels across five sub-Saharan African countries to show the remarkable resilience of people fighting not only a disease exacerbated by systemic problems of exploitation, stigma, inequity and a lack of education, but the endless media stereotypes of Africa as a basket-case of dying children with bloated bellies, covered in flies.

In the process of talking to tireless activists like Stephen Lewis and UNICEF Canada's Nigel Fisher; to humanitarian (and retired general) Roméo Dallaire, to doctors from Africa and the West who relay the illuminating potential of antiretroviral drugs; to children, mothers, fathers, sex-workers, educators and NGO leaders all across sub-Saharan Africa, some who are HIV positive and some who are not, Hope In The Time of AIDS will make clear that not only will the fight for life, for a dignified life of health and justice for all people, never be stopped, but that through science, education, solidarity and vigilance, HIV and AIDS will be stopped.

Directed by filmmakers Tim Hardy and Pete McCormack, Hope In The Time of AIDS is a compelling, illuminating, shocking, inspiring, musical, theatrical, joyful testimony to that fight.