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  • 2010
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2010
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Not far from the White House, the Capitol, and the National Mall lies a part of Washington, DC that the tourists never see and the mainstream media virtually ignores. At least three percent of DC is HIV positive, a staggering rate higher than parts of Africa. Behind all the stories of heartbreak, loss, and struggle there are also the inc...

Directed By: Susan Koch

Written By: Jose Antonio Vargas

  • 2010
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2010
  • 1 h 30 m

The Other City

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Summary Not far from the White House, the Capitol, and the National Mall lies a part of Washington, DC that the tourists never see and the mainstream media virtually ignores. At least three percent of DC is HIV positive, a staggering rate higher than parts of Africa. Behind all the stories of heartbreak, loss, and struggle there are also the inc...

Directed By: Susan Koch

Written By: Jose Antonio Vargas

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Its personal, newsmagazine touch will make your heart ache for its cross-section of humanity.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
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All these individuals and organizations are deeply affecting in their attempt to better themselves and society against daunting odds.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
70
The film's most vivid presence is seen but barely able to speak: Jimmy, a gay man in his 30s dying at Joseph's House, an AIDS hospice. Anyone who has kept a deathbed vigil will relate to his suffering and his family's, and perhaps arrive at a sense of just how universal this epidemic truly is.
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In her absorbing, alarming investigation into the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the nation's capital, Koch cuts a cross-section through a bitter D.C. winter, following about half a dozen local victims, caregivers, family members, and activists as they grapple with a disease without the benefit of social awareness or political will.
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Production Company Cabin Films
Release Date Sep 17, 2010
Duration 1 h 30 m
Genres
Tagline In every city there's another city
Website http://www.theothercity.com/
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