Coping With COVID-19 Crisis: ‘How To Survive A Plague’ Director David France On The Lessons Of AIDS, The Benefits Of Fear And The Potential For Rage
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deadline.comBy Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic “When people think of plagues, they think of me,” jokes David France. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the director of 2012’s Oscar-nominated documentary How To Survive A Plague has seen an uptick in media requests, the title of his most known work all but an engraved invitation.
The film chronicles the life-or-death fight for effective AIDS treatments waged by Act-Up, the era-defining AIDS activist group that demanded to be heard by the government, Big Pharma and the country at large.
What can his film, or more broadly the AIDS Plague Years of the 1980s and early ’90s prior to the arrival of life-saving drug cocktails in 1996, teach us about living with a pandemic today?
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