Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: John Greyson, Kristian Peters
Canadian filmmaker John Greyson (above with festival supporter Laura Righi) was at the 24 Torino GLBT Film Festival to receive a special award for his latest effort, the part-documentary, part-fiction Fig Trees, about the struggles of AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Cape Town, as they fight governments and the pharmaceutical industry for better access to antiviral drugs. Fig Trees won the Teddy Award for best documentary at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
As per the Torino festival’s release, "Greyson hopes that his presence in Torino will help the festival audience to share the Spanish and European Union opinions (including the possibility to send 1 million condoms to the countries affected by this disease) in [...]
by Andre Soares | April 27, 2009
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