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Seen, But Not Heard: AIDS and the Untold War Against Black Women
Cyrille Phipps
2008
Color
12 minutes
US
English
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Seen, But Not Heard: AIDS and the Untold War Against Black Women

SEEN, BUT NOT HEARD is a short documentary that will explore the historical antecedents, current trends, and emerging activism concerning HIV/AIDS and women of African descent. Through raw and revealing personal accounts and comprehensive investigative journalism, SEEN, BUT NOT HEARD seeks to challenge, inform, and inspire viewers to look past the daunting HIV/AIDS statistics - to see and hear the real stories of women of color whose lives are affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Reviews
"Recommended. An effective public service message about the horrors of the disease and toll it is taking on an already marginalized population." - Linda Frederikson, WSU, Vancouver, WA, Educational Media Reviews Online
"SEEN, BUT NOT HEARD addresses some of the political aspects of being ill. This documentary unfolds through statements by activists from groups like Harlem United, Brooklyn Lives, and the Latino Commission on AIDS; by women living with AIDS; and by descriptive facts, like of the one million Americans living with AIDS, half are black women. The central message is that with the popular, but quiescent, move of HIV infection from death sentence to chronic condition in wider political activist circles, the ravages of the illness for black women have been pushed aside, marginalized, and silenced. Now is the time to act and bring the medical into the political." - Pamela Moss, Films for the Feminist Classroom
Screenings
• The Women of Color Arts and Film (WOCAF) Festival Women of Color Arts and Film (WOCAF) Festival, Atlanta Delta Days at the UN, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Community Screening and Panel Discussion
• Arizona Black Film Festival, Tucson New York, NY
• Conference on the Family, Bedford Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc - Rho Chapter and North Manhattan Alumnae Chapter World AIDS Day Community Screening and Panel Discussion New York, NY
• Hollywood Black Film Festival, Los Angeles Community Screening and Panel Discussion New York, NY
• Black Women's Art and Film Festival, Philadelphia Baltimore, MD
• DC Short Film Festival We, the People Los Angeles, CA
• Urban World Film Festival
• Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
• A Day of Voices: Women’s Tribunal on Poverty and the Millenium Development Goals, United Nations
• Left Behind: Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS Epidemic, New York University
• Trade & Row Documentary Film Festival, Los Angeles
• Baltimore Women’s Film Festival
• Delta Days at the United Nations, New York
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