Deepsouth Explained

Deepsouth
Director:Lisa Biagiotti
Producer:Lisa Biagiotti
Duy Linh Tu
Joe Lindquist
Starring:Joshua Alexander
Monica Johnson
Kathie Hiers
Tamela King
Cedric Sturdevant
Dimitre Blutcher
Music:John Chin
Cinematography:Duy Linh Tu
Editing:Joe Lindquist
Runtime:72 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Deepsouth is a 2012 American documentary film about the neglected HIV/AIDS crisis in the rural American South. Beneath layers of history, poverty, and soaring HIV infections, three Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.

On December 1, 2014, the film was self-distributed and digitally released.[1] [2] Seventy communities across the United States screened deepsouth for World AIDS Day with a 10-hour live-stream with cast/crew.[3]

Synopsis

Joshua Alexander, a college student, seeks the support of an underground gay family miles away from his suffocating Mississippi Delta hometown. With no funds and few resources, Monica Johnson tries tirelessly to unite reluctant participants at her annual HIV retreat in rural Louisiana. Kathie Hiers, an Alabama activist, spends 120 days a year on the road fighting a bureaucracy that continues to ignore the South.

Critical reception

The film has become the quiet anthem of the current HIV/AIDS movement in the U.S. deepsouth has toured the international LGBTQ and human rights festival circuits, and was invited into communities on a 150-stop grassroots tour. Director Lisa Biagiotti has been invited to The White House, featured in The New Yorker, and has presented the issue at the Clinton Global Initiative University.

The film is being taught as part of public health, law, journalism, sociology, nursing, gender studies and rural studies programs in universities across the country. The Mississippi Department of Health leverages deepsouth for sensitivity and anti-stigma training of new hire Disease Intervention Specialists.[4]

deepsouth is an unconventional social issues documentary because of its approach to storytelling and style. Its three-part narrative embeds research and data in every scene, but without expert interviews or statistical plot points.[5]

Journalism

Science

Film/art

Film festivals

Awards

YearAwardOrganizationWorkAward CategoryResult
2012SHOUT! LGBT Best DocumentarySidewalk Film FestivaldeepsouthBest DocumentaryWon[13]
Koronis Fest Special Filmmaker AwardSidewalk Film FestivaldeepsouthPublic HealthWon[14]
Best Documentary and
Audience Favorite		Outflix Film FestivaldeepsouthAwards for Best Documentary and Audience FavoriteWon[15]
2013
Award for FreedomOutfest Los Angeles LGBT Film FestivaldeepsouthSpecial Programming AwardWon[16]
Official Selection HRW Traveling Film FestivalHuman Rights Watch Film FestivaldeepsouthTraveling Film FestivalWon[17]
Award for Best Documentary FeaturePolari Film FestivaldeepsouthBest Documentary FeatureWon
Award for Best Feature Length DocumentaryPensacola LGBT Film Festival / ACLU of FloridadeepsouthBest Feature Length DocumentaryWon[18]
2014Most Captivating Voices of 2014: Lisa BiagiottiHIV Equal Online MagazinedeepsouthTop 10 ListWon[19]
Livingston Award: Lisa BiagiottiLivingston Awards for Young JournalistsdeepsouthNational ReportingNominated[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: deepsouth : An Interview With Filmmaker Lisa Biagiotti | Stephanie Spiro . Huffingtonpost.com . December 2014. 2015-05-07.
  2. Web site: deepsouth IMPACT, GRASSROOTS FILM TOUR + TIMELINE OF EVENTS. Deepsouthfilm.com\accessdate=2015-05-07. 2015-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073718/http://www.deepsouthfilm.com/#!timeline/c8x2#!timeline/c8x2. 2015-05-18. dead.
  3. Web site: deepsouth - Help Us Share this Documentary with the World by Lisa Biagiotti — Kickstarter . Kickstarter.com . 2015-05-07.
  4. Web site: Southern public health leaders screen 'deepsouth' in Mississippi. Deepsouthfilm.com. 2015-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073718/http://www.deepsouthfilm.com/#!Southern-public-health-leaders-screen-deepsouth-in-Mississippi/cmbz/742B5E9A-2BBA-4E5D-BCA5-AC363684D069#!Southern-public-health-leaders-screen-deepsouth-in-Mississippi/cmbz/742B5E9A-2BBA-4E5D-BCA5-AC363684D069. 2015-05-18. dead.
  5. Web site: deepsouth | A&U Magazine . Aumag.org . 2012-07-12 . 2015-05-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518105231/http://aumag.org/wordpress/2012/07/12/silent-south/ . 2015-05-18 . dead .
  6. Web site: H.I.V.'s Grip on the American South . Newyorker.com . 2014-04-07 . 2015-05-07.
  7. Web site: Translating public health into media - Columbia Journalism Review . Cjr.org . 2015-05-07.
  8. Heald . Rebecca . Strengthening the voices of the unheard . The Lancet Infectious Diseases . December 2013 . 13 . 12 . 1019 . 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70353-0 .
  9. Web site: July/August #181 : Rolling in the Deep - by Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr . Poz.com . 2012-06-19. 2015-05-07.
  10. Web site: Kaufman . Anthony . Docutopia #52: Human Rights Docs and the Global Gay Rights Fight | SUNDANCE NOW . Blog.sundancenow.com . 2015-05-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518090550/http://blog.sundancenow.com/weekly-columns/docutopia-52-human-rights-docs-and-the-global-gay-rights-fight . 2015-05-18 . dead .
  11. Web site: Vawda . Hassan . deepsouth l Lisa Biagiotti | Interview . Polarimagazine.com . 2013-04-29 . 2015-05-07.
  12. Web site: deepsouth: a documentary around, not about, HIV . Dailykos.com . 2013-03-27 . 2015-05-07.
  13. Web site: Preview Feature Doc 'deepsouth' (On The New American South | Shadow and Act . Blogs.indiewire.com . 2015-05-07 . 2015-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150521043501/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/preview-feature-doc-deepsouth-on-the-new-american-south-the-people-in-its-most-quiet-corners . dead .
  14. Web site: participates in Sidewalk Film Festival 2012 . Koronisfest.org . 2015-05-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518072307/http://www.koronisfest.org/sidewalk . 2015-05-18 . dead .
  15. Web site: Preview Feature Doc 'deepsouth' (On The New American South | Shadow and Act . Blogs.indiewire.com . 2015-05-07 . 2015-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150521043501/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/preview-feature-doc-deepsouth-on-the-new-american-south-the-people-in-its-most-quiet-corners . dead .
  16. Web site: 2013 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, July 11-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130614053731/http://www.outfest.org/fest2013/awards.html . dead . 2013-06-14 . Outfest.org . 2015-05-07 .
  17. Web site: deepsouth | Human Rights Watch Film Festival . Ff.hrw.org . 2015-05-07.
  18. Web site: 2013 Pensacola LGBT Film Festival Opening Night. Aclufl.org. 2015-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518075614/https://aclufl.org/event/2013-pensacola-lgbt-film-festival-opening-night/. 2015-05-18. dead.
  19. Web site: Evans . Thomas . Online's Most Captivating Voices of 2014: Lisa Biagiotti . HIVequal.org . 2014-12-04 . 2015-05-07 . 2015-05-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518063039/http://www.hivequal.org/hiv-equal-online/hiv-equal-online-s-most-captivating-voices-of-2014-lisa-biagiotti . dead .
  20. Web site: Livingston Awards finalists move to final round of judging | University of Michigan News . Ns.umich.edu . 2014-05-01 . 2015-05-07.

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