Film Archive
Excerpts from interview with Martin Delaney, Founding Director, Project Inform, May 2006
Length: 06:10
This interview with Martin Delaney, founder and director of the San Fransisco based Project Inform, was made in 2006. He was one of the early AIDS-activists when AIDS hit hard in San Fransisco in the early 80´s. This is a segment from a longer Face of AIDS one to one interview.
San Francisco - The early years
Length: 04:00
This film highlight the early dramatic years of the AIDS pandemic in San Fransisco between 1978 – 1981. The vibrant Castro neighborhood became the epicenter of the epidemic. Doctor Selma Dritz, infectious disease specialist gives her unique recollection. Martin Delaney, Project Inform remembers the early years. In the end of the film, dr Paul Volberding, a pioneer in the fight against AIDS in San Fransisco, is reflecting on the early response, in an interview made 1998.
Story of AIDS activism in the US
Length: 04:15
This film focus on some major milestones in American AIDS activism, as a response to the rapid spread of HIV in the USA between 1985 – 1996. The film highlights violent demostrations between Aids activists and police. The famous Aids activist and writer Larry Kramer and the head of US Aids research Dr Anthony Fauci recolects ther memories from a confrontational time. The Quilt Names Project, to commemorate those who died of AIDS, and Project Inform, both based in San Fransisco, are also highlited in the film.
The story of anti- retroviral treatment
Length: 03:22
This film highlights the development of AIDS drugs from the first one, AZT in 1986 to the introduction of anti retro viral treatment (ARV) in 1996 and to the second generation ARV in 2004. Martin Delaney from the Project Inform, San Fransisco, AIDS expert dr Anthony Fauci from the federal US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV, comments on the rapid development. AIDS patients on ARV are also interviewed in the film.
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