India Premiere: 'A Closer Walk'

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India Premiere: A Closer Walk

April 1st. 7:00 pm, Silver Oak, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi,

India. Presented by Action India (Trust), Worldwide documentaries and

Ashraya-New York (USA. http://www.acloserwalk.org/

A Closer Walk in confrontation with Aids

Express News Service. New Delhi, March 30: Seven years in the making, the film

AIDS: A Closer Walk by Academy award nominee ilheimer will have its India

premiere on Thursday, April 1, at 7 pm at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat

Centre. The film which shows interviews of 85 people from all over the world is

a tale of Humanity's confrontation with the epidemic.

It explores the intricate relationship between the disease and the social

condition of its victims and suggests that the harsh reality surrounding AIDS is

just another expression of the inequalities and discrimination that predates it.

Begun by Bilheimer and Mann in 1996 — Mann died in a tragic

plane crash in 1998 — the 85-min-long film has been made at an expense of $2

million and was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and General

Motors Corp. Its being brought to India by the Action India Trust in association

with New York-based Ashraya and World Wide Documentaries. The film, shot on

locations around the world including India and Africa, won critical acclaim in

the United States when it opened there a few months ago.

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