Art Film Talk

David Tames talks with Thom Fitzgerald about his new film, 3 Needles, which opens in several U.S. theaters on Friday, December 1, 2006 in conjunction with World AIDS Day. The cast includes Lucy Liu, Chloe Sevigny, Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Stockard Channing, and Shawn Ashmore.

The film consists of three stories about the ways different people deal with the AIDS epidemic and the sacrifices they are willing to make: In Montreal, a porn actor hides his illness so he will not lose his job while his mother makes her own pact with the disease in order to care for him; In South Africa a nun negotiates a deal to save the lives of disease-stricken children in her mission; In a Chinese village, a young entrepreneur buys blood from farmers who use the money to improve their lives, unaware that she is spreading death. Thom Fitzgerald has said, "In North America and Europe we have such a cognitive awareness of how not to spread AIDS, but in much of the rest of the world, people are innocently infected through ignorance and cultural practice."

The interivew was edited by Elissa Mintz and recorded at the 2006 Rio International Film Festival. Theme music by Colin Owens.

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