this event focuses on How to Survive a
Plague, a documentary about the AIDS crisis and activism. The director
David France will be holding court. ,
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA.
David France, Oscar-nominated director of the acclaimed documentary
How to Survive a Plague, will be the guest of honor at the Boston
Society of Film Critics' (BSFC) sixth annual awards ceremony. The BSFC
voted France best new filmmaker, and How to Survive a Plague best
documentary, for 2012. France will take part in a Q+A session
immediately following the film screening.
How to Survive a Plague is a riveting account about the AIDS
activists of ACT-UP and TAG who pushed successfully in the '80s and '90s
to make the epidemic a public health priority. It has been nominated as
2012's Best Documentary by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences. Besides recognition from the BSFC, the film took the prize for
Best Debut Film at the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards, the first
documentary ever to do so.
Partial proceeds from the event will benefit The David Brudnoy Fund
for AIDS Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Brudnoy,
who died in 2004, was a founding member of the BSFC.
The ceremony will also honor several members of the Boston film
community cited by BSFC for their contributions in 2012. Local awardees
include the Independent Film Festival Boston; Sharon and Lisa Rivo of
the National Center for Jewish Film; The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra;
Arthur Singer and Ron Goodman, authors of the book Boston's Downtown
Movie Palaces; and Generoso Fierro, film programmer at MIT for the
'Complete Works' series.
The BSFC's annual awards ceremony is a much-anticipated event for the
Boston film community. Many BSFC honorees have gone on to Oscar
nominations and wins. These include past guests Stan Chervin, one of the
Oscar-nominated script writers for Moneyball; Andrew Weisblum, the
Oscar-nominated editor of Black Swan; Jeremy Renner, Oscar-nominated
star of The Hurt Locker; Maureen Ryan, producer of the Oscar-winning
documentary Man on Wire, and actor Frank Langella, an Oscar nominee for
Frost/Nixon.
Formed in 1981, the BSFC is made up of 22 professional film critics
working in the print and broadcast media in and around Boston. Visit the
BSFC website at www.bostonfilmcritics.org for more information on the
organization and for a complete list of winners.
Event sponsors are the Hotel Veritas, the Sinclair, Big Picture Framing and Flash Print
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