Commitment to Life
Jeffrey Schwarz
Documentary : 115' / Community, HIV-AIDS, Trauma, Politics

In the early 1980s, a young doctor at UCLA reports a strange immune disorder among gay men—the world’s first warning sign of the epidemic to come. In the decades that followed, Los Angeles would play a critical role in the battle against HIV/AIDS as doctors, movie stars, studio moguls and activists came together to change the path of the epidemic and how the world saw it. Commitment to Life documents this incredible drama - Rock Hudson and Easy-E, Elizabeth Taylor and David Geffen, the Red Ribbon and Philadelphia, ACT UP and APLA - through the stories of those who lived through it. Using first-person interviews, rare archival and activist footage, and scenes from star-studded Hollywood fundraisers, Commitment to Life resurrects one of the epidemic’s most compelling histories—in order that we never repeat it.

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/ Details

Year: 2023

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Jewel Thais-Williams, Phill Wilson, Karamo Brown, Bruce Vilanch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Robert Contreras, Torie Osborn, Traci Bivens-Davis, Susan Bluestein Davis, Rev. Steve Pieters, Bamby Salcedo, Melissa Rivers, Jim J Bullock, Chandi Moore

/ Direction

Jeffrey Schwarz

USA


Jeffrey Schwarz is an Emmy Award-winning producer, director and editor based in Los Angeles. His previous documentaries include the Emmy Award-winning HBO Documentary Films Vito, I Am Divine, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, and the 2007 AFI Fest Documentary Audience Award winner Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story. He is also a producer of studio Blu-ray and DVD content, and original television programming through his company, Automat Pictures. He has produced content on major studio releases for directors such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, John Waters, among others.


Filmography

2023 - Commitment to Life (Documentary)
2021 - Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (Documentary)
2017 - The Fabulous Allan Carr (Documentary)

2015 - Tab Hunter Confidential (Documentary)

2013 - I Am Divine (Documentary)

2011 - Vito (Documentary)

2008 - Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (Documentary)

2007 - Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (Documentary)

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