Festivals & Awards
World Premiere -
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA, 2012
International
Premiere - Ramallah, Palestine, 2012
European Premiere -
Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino, Italy, 2012
Frameline 36, San
Francisco, CA, USA, 2012
Hot Docs Canadian
International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2012
2012 Boston LGBT
Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Grand Jury Award:
Best Documentary - Milan Intl Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2012
Audience Award:
Best Documentary -Reel Q - 27th Pittsburgh LGBT Film Festival, 2012
Palm Springs
International Film Festival, CA, USA, 2013
London Lesbian and
Gay Film Festival, UK, 2013
Indian Premiere -
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, 2013
MediaImpact: 2nd
International Festival of Activist Art, Moscow, Russia, 2013
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Director’s Statement
“I started making
this film 25 years ago, 10 years ago or 3 years ago depending on how you look
at it. I first filmed ACT UP at the Lesbian & Gay Pride March in New York
in June 1987. I started filming Gay political events in 1979 in the lead up
to the first national march on Washington. I continued to film ACT UP over
the years with my 16mm camera, but the real heroic effort of documenting the
AIDS activist movement was carried on by the dozens of AIDS activist
video-makers whose work appears in United in Anger. From 1995 to 2000, I
worked with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS to convince many of
these video-makers to donate their footage to the New York Public Library’s
Division of Manuscripts and Archives. The NYPL’s AIDS Activist Video
Collection consists of over 1,000 hours of finished tapes and raw footage. It
is an historical resource of immense value and I am exceedingly grateful to
the many filmmakers who allowed me to utilize their footage. I bear full
responsibility for this film, so if you have complaints direct them to me,
but I feel very strongly that the film is the end result of the collective
work of dozens of valiant people who videotaped and edited the remarkable
body of work that documents the AIDS activist movement. As I worked on the
film I always felt that there was a collective intelligence that shaped it
and made it possible”. - Jim Hubbard
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Director’s Bio
JIM HUBBARD is a New York based filmmaker and AIDS
activist who has a long history of filmmaking and activism that has made a
global mark. He has been making films since 1974 and has an accomplished
repertoire of over 19 films including Elegy
in the Streets (1989), Two Marches
(1991), The Dance (1992) and Memento
Mori (1995). These have been shown at several film festivals as well as
the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1987 he co-founded, along with
Sarah Schulman, the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival,
which is now is in its in its twenty-sixth year and has been renamed New York Queer
Experimental Film Festival. Having been an integral part of ACT UP (the AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power) for several years, Jim also created the AIDS
Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library. Since 2001, Jim Hubbard alongwith producer
Sarah Sculman have been working on the ACT UP Oral History Project.
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