Director: | Tina Di Feliciantonio |
Distributor: | PBS |
Living with AIDS is a 1987 documentary film directed by Tina Di Feliciantonio that achieved some recognition and awards within the film industry and earned Di Feliciantonio an Emmy.[1] [2] Part of the AIDS Film Project, it was one of the first films broadcast on PBS about AIDS when it premiered on July 19, 1988.[3] [4] The film tells the story of Todd Coleman and the people who cared for him during his final weeks.[5]
Coleman moved from Denver to San Francisco at the age of 16 and was diagnosed with AIDS at 21. DiFeliciantonio was a graduate student at Stanford and decided to film his care as a way of showing the world another side of the AIDS epidemic.[6]