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AIDS Warriors
Thursday, July 24, 2003
(Repeat) In Sub-Saharan Africa today, AIDS is not only a vast humanitarian tragedy, but also a dire threat to regional stability. As death rates from AIDS exceed the rate at which teachers, doctors, and security forces can be trained and maintained, whole nations may begin to collapse. Perhaps the only benefit from Angola's long civil war is that the country now has one of the lowest HIV infection rates in Southern Africa. Strategically important because of its oil reserves, Angola is now coping with the problems of peace. As refugees and soldiers return home and transportation and trade resume, the spread of AIDS looms. In response to this new enemy the government has once again rallied its military forces. WIDE ANGLE explores the role of the military, the only functioning arm of the state, in its bold attempt to combat the AIDS pandemic. The challenges it faces offer an arresting portrait of a nation at a crucial moment in history.
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Co-Producer Andrew Young is an award-winning filmmaker who, along with his partner, Susan Todd, co-founded Archipelago Films in 1989. Since then, he has directed and photographed over a dozen films including: AMERICANOS: LATINO LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES for HBO, "Madagascar: A World Apart" for THE LIVING EDENS series on PBS and CHILDREN OF FATE for HBO/Cinemax for which he received an Oscar nomination and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. In addition, Young's films have earned two Emmy Awards and a nomination for the Director's Guild of America Award. Young is the only cinematographer to have won the Sundance Film Festival's Excellence in Cinematography Award three times.
Co-Producer Micah Fink, an award-winning journalist, has been involved with the development and production of documentary programming for THIRTEEN/WNET, PBS' FRONTLINE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TELEVISION, and ABC NEWS. His recent work includes field producing for the award-winning ABC NEWS series HOPKINS 24/7, original story development and reporting for FRONTLINE's Peabody Award-winning "Lost Children of Rockdale County," and associate producing for the PBS series FRONTIER HOUSE, FRONTLINE's JEFFERSON'S BLOOD, and INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY for ABC NEWS' 20/20.
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