Between 1981—when AIDS claimed its first reported cases—and 1996, there was not one drug for treating HIV. In those 15 years, as 343,000 Americans, many of them in the arts, died without hope, an ...
The mistreatment and persecution of the LGBTQ community in Chechnya has been an ongoing issue, but in March 2017 a glaring spotlight was put on the Russian republic as reports of gay and bisexual men ...
The classy, intellectual activist began his career as a journalist in the 1980s, penning works for The New York Times, Newsweek and The New York Post. Though his career thrived in the early 80s, ...
“Death wasn’t being responded to as a public health problem,” David France says. “It was dealt with with sniggers. It was left to religious leaders to explain or respond to the epidemic. And they ...
From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker David France (“How to Survive a Plague”) could sense the scale of the threat looming on the horizon. A long-time ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: David France is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Speech. The year with the highest average number of views per program ...
The new documentary “Welcome to Chechnya” available on HBO and HBO Max, looks at the dangers for LGBTQ people in Russia’s Chechen Republic. To document human rights abuses in Chechnya, filmmaker David ...
A decade ago, when his documentary “How to Survive a Plague” rode a wave of festival acclaim to an Oscar nomination, journalist-turned-filmmaker David France probably didn’t imagine that a similarly ...
The HBO documentary directed by David France ('Welcome to Chechnya') charts the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, in the U.S. and abroad. By Angie Han Television Critic Told ...