The mistreatment and persecution of the LGBTQ community in Chechnya has been an ongoing issue, but in March 2017 a glaring spotlight was put on the Russian republic as reports of gay and bisexual men ...

“My youth, and my entire adult life, has been under the cloud of AIDS,” says David France. France moved to New York in June 1981, just one month prior to a New York Times report about 41 cases of “gay ...

Between 1981—when AIDS claimed its first reported cases—and 1996, there was not one drug for treating HIV. In those 15 years, as 343,000 Americans, many of them in the arts, died without hope, an ...

Award winning journalist and first-time filmmaker David France shows us why documentary is one of the most powerful mediums in the world in How to Survive a Plague, his intimate and visceral ...

The classy, intellectual activist began his career as a journalist in the 1980s, penning works for The New York Times, Newsweek and The New York Post. Though his career thrived in the early 80s, ...

David France’s new HBO documentary, “Welcome to Chechnya,” looks at the ongoing campaign to eradicate gay people in the Chechen Republic. France worked on the ground with activists in Moscow and ...

A decade ago, when his documentary “How to Survive a Plague” rode a wave of festival acclaim to an Oscar nomination, journalist-turned-filmmaker David France probably didn’t imagine that a similarly ...

From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker David France (“How to Survive a Plague”) could sense the scale of the threat looming on the horizon. A long-time ...

Between 1981—when AIDS claimed its first reported cases—and 1996, there was not one drug for treating HIV. In those 15 years, as 343,000 Americans, many of them in the arts, died without hope, an ...

Netflix debuted “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” on Oct. 6, but filmmaker Reina Gossett claims that the documentary’s director, David France, appropriated her idea and research for the ...

Bob Rafsky was sick and tired when he bought a ticket to a Bill Clinton fundraiser in the spring of 1992 — sick with AIDS and tired of government inaction in the face of an epidemic. Rafsky, a public ...