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  • 2012
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2012
  • 1 h 33 m
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP

Summary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage that puts the audience on the ground with the activists and the remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective – ...

Directed By: Jim Hubbard

Written By: Ali Cotterill, Jim Hubbard

  • 2012
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2012
  • 1 h 33 m

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP

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Summary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage that puts the audience on the ground with the activists and the remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective – ...

Directed By: Jim Hubbard

Written By: Ali Cotterill, Jim Hubbard

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Jul 5, 2012
And by exploring the lighter side of communal action - the camaraderie and cruising that turned weekly meetings into what one member calls "a combination of serious politics and joyful living" - he uncouples the gravity of the cause from the perceived humorlessness of advocacy. Foot soldiers for the dying, the members of Act Up never forgot how to live.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Jul 7, 2012
Though the film sets out only to chronicle the group's life, not the history of the disease, some viewers will wish for a parting message making sense of where things stand today, with the disease mostly vanished from headlines but still destroying lives around the world.
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Jul 4, 2012
If the AIDS crisis has crested, it's due in large part to the radical advocacy group so intelligently portrayed in United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, a documentary that could have been a lot angrier but aims to educate rather than agitate.
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Jul 4, 2012
Crucially, the variety of interviewees in Hubbard's doc - men and women of different races and classes - underscores just how diverse ACT UP was in its heyday.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company New York State Council on the Arts, The Ford Foundation
Release Date Jun 6, 2012
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/UnitedinAnger
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Awards

Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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