DiAna's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front, Aug 22, 1990 | 6th Annual Boston International Gay & Lesbian Film and Video Festival

6th Annual Boston International Gay & Lesbian Film and Video Festival

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Director

Ellen Spiro

Year

1990

Run Time

30

min

Country

USA

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

A documentary film about AIDS and one unconventional woman’s efforts to educate her small, Southern community. DiAna DiAna is a local hairdresser who transformed her beauty parlor into a center for AIDS and safe sex information.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

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Mona Smith

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Carole Lafavor, activist, mother and registered nurse, is a person with AIDS. In this candid and moving portrait, Lafavor relates how she has come to terms with AIDS by combining her traditional beliefs and healing practices with western medicine.

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