PLEASE TALK TO

KIDS ABOUT AIDS

. . . A Movie that can Save Lives . . .

In the donor-fatigued, jargon-laden, taboo-filled world of HIV/AIDS, two innocent and innovative

voices revive our understanding and compassion. By asking questions (“that only a child could

ask”), two young girls get basic, honest, and fresh answers about the pandemic that defines our

times. The result is a refreshing and thought-provoking documentary about our inability to make

the epidemic understandable to all people because of our discomfort with issues of sex and

sexuality. The fact that two kids can get to the bottom of it at the International AIDS Conference --

talking to experts, sexworkers, crossdressers and people living with AIDS-- is hilarious, hopeful

and a little bit haunting . . . why have so many died because we can't talk about these subjects in

an open and honest way?

Starring:

Vineeta and Sevilla

Co-starring:

Anthony Fauci – Director NIH Allergy & Infectious Diseases

Richard Horton – Editor-in-chief The Lancet

Laurie Garrett – Pulitzer-prize for The Coming Plague

Jose Esparza – Gates Foundation HIV vaccines

Kevin Decock – HIV/AIDS Director WHO

Helene Gayle – CEO/President CARE

Stephen Lewis – UN Special Envoy on AIDS

Craig McClure – Exec. Dir. Int'l AIDS Society

                                                                             . . . and a cast of 25,000

Credits

Director: Brian Hennessey
Producers: Radia Daoussi, Nagila Guimaraes
Editor: Claudia Turner
Sound Engineer: Erich Netherton
Sound: Daniel Magnani, Michael J.Mateer
Music: Brian Turner
And special thanks to Soraia Callison

Festival screenings 2007:

Swansea Bay Film Festival in Wales, UK
Everglades, South Africa (nominated for Best Public Service and Community)
Great Lakes Film Festival, USA (nominated for Best Documentary Short) 

Reviews:

"The topic is a powerful exhortation to begin thinking about how to talk to one’s own [children] " - The New York Times

"There is praise for the way the film breaks taboos about discussing sex" - Voice of America

 "Their innocent questions elicited simple, jargon-free explanations" - The Associated Press

 "A really ground-breaking film - a lot of buzz about it because it breaks a lot of the taboos" - Poz magazine

 "What a wonderful film. It was brilliant way to convey important messages" - Richard Horton, editor-in-chief, the Lancet

 "To have children, in their innocence, ask those questions and really force people to give a straight answer to this, I think really exemplifies why we need to talk straight about HIV? - Dr Anthony Fauci, Director, NIH/NIAID

Photo credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Vineeta, Sevilla, Radia Daoussi, Dr. Fauci, and Brian Hennessey following a screening of Please Talk to Kids about AIDS at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

 The film is available at  http://www.eztakes.com/Talk-to-Kids