{"id":5480,"date":"2021-02-23T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?page_id=5480"},"modified":"2021-03-05T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:10:23","slug":"14-00-teddy-special-invisible-threat-similarities-and-disparities-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-hiv-aids-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/14-00-teddy-special-invisible-threat-similarities-and-disparities-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-hiv-aids-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDDY Special &#8211; Invisible Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Similarities and Disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV\/AIDS epidemic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEDDY SPECIAL \u2013 Invisible Threat \u2013 Similarities and Disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV\/AIDS epidemic.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/519576913?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong>FRIDAY 05. M\u00e4rz 2021&nbsp;|&nbsp;2&nbsp;PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two global public health crises, two invisible threats to human life. But in what ways compare the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV\/AIDS epidemic? What are the most striking differences? Is it ethical at all to compare the two? And what role can cinema and filmmakers play in tackling the harshest of realities brought by these viruses? Where do their responsibilities and political power lie? A conversation about visibility, power, trauma, memory, and film activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SPEAKERS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/collageAIDSCOVIDsq-1024x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/collageAIDSCOVIDsq-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/collageAIDSCOVIDsq-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/collageAIDSCOVIDsq-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/02\/collageAIDSCOVIDsq.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Alexandra Juhasz<\/strong><br>Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She has been making and thinking about AIDS activist video since the mid-80s. She is the author\/editor of scholarly books on AIDS including &#8216;AIDS TV&#8217; (Duke, 1995) and &#8216;AIDS and the Distribution of Crises&#8217; (with Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani, 2020), fake (and real) documentaries, YouTube, and black lesbian filmmaking (with Yvonne Welbon, &#8216;Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking&#8217;, Duke 2018). She is the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries &#8216;The Watermelon Woman&#8217; (Cheryl Dunye, 196) and &#8216;The Owls&#8217; (Dunye, 2010). Her current work is on and about feminist Internet culture: <br>Fakenews Poetry and HIV\/COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Greyson<\/strong><br>John Greyson is video\/film artist and pioneer of the new queer cinema. Since 1984, his many features, shorts and transmedia works have explored such queer activist issues as police violence, prison, AIDS activism, solidarity, homo-nationalism and apartheid (both South African and Israeli). These include <em>International Dawn Chorus Day <\/em>(2021), <em>Mercurial<\/em> (2018), <em>Gazonto<\/em> (2016), <em>Murder in Passing<\/em> (2013), <em>Fig Trees<\/em> (2009), <em>Lilies<\/em> (1996), <em>Zero Patience<\/em> (1993), <em>The Making of Monsters<\/em> (1991) and <em>Urinal<\/em> (1989), which have received 40+ best film awards at such festivals as TIFF, Lisbon, Ann Arbor, Hamburg, San Francisco, Vancouver, Locarno, Montreal, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, as well as 3 Berlinale Teddies and 5 Canadian Screen Awards (Canada&#8217;s Oscars). He teaches in York University&#8217;s Cinema &amp; Media Arts department, was a member of the <em>Blah Blah Blah<\/em> and <em>Olive Project<\/em> media collectives, co-editor of <em>Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian &amp; Gay Film &amp; Video <\/em>(1993), co-producer of the cable series <em>Toronto Living with AIDS<\/em> (1991) and producer of the AIDS activist media project <em>Viral Interventions<\/em> (2021).His films are subject of the critical anthology <em>The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson<\/em>. IDCD is his eighth film to premiere at the Berlinale. <br>Foto \u00a9 John Greyson <strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wieland Speck<\/strong> <br><strong>*1951<\/strong>, aufgewachsen in Freiburg i.Br.<br><strong>1973-76 |<\/strong> Studium FU: Germanistik, Theaterwissenschaften, Ethnologie <br><strong>1976-79 |<\/strong> Theaterleiter TALI KINO Kreuzberg (heute Moviemento) <br><strong>1979-80<\/strong> <strong>| <\/strong>Filmstudium am San Francisco Art Institute, u.a. bei George Kuchar<br><strong>1987<\/strong> <strong>| <\/strong>Gr\u00fcndung TEDDY AWARD &#8211; der queere Filmpreis der Berlinale <br><strong>1992-2017<\/strong> <strong>|<\/strong> Programmleiter PANORAMA Berlinale <br><strong>1992-2019 <em>|&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>Mitglied Auswahlkomitee Wettbewerb Berlinale<br><br>Diverse Jury T\u00e4tigkeiten, Programmberatung f\u00fcr verschiedene int. Filmfestivals und Institutionen. Gremiums Mitglied in Filmf\u00f6rderungen. Autor und Schauspieler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HOST<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zsombor Bob\u00e1k<\/strong><br>Zsombor has graduated from the University of Amsterdam&#8217;s Heritage Studies: Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image programme in 2018. Since then he is a member of the TEDDY AWARD-Team conducting interviews with filmmakers and film professionals. He is passionate about queer cinema, queer film histories, and the political potential of film festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2021\/02\/19\/the-teddy-award-program-2021\/\"><em>\u2013&gt; back to the program overview<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similarities and Disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV\/AIDS epidemic FRIDAY 05. M\u00e4rz 2021&nbsp;|&nbsp;2&nbsp;PM Two global public health crises, two invisible threats to human life. But in what ways compare the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV\/AIDS epidemic? What are the most striking differences? Is it ethical at all to compare the two? And what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/14-00-teddy-special-invisible-threat-similarities-and-disparities-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-hiv-aids-epidemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TEDDY Special &#8211; Invisible Threat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5126,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5480","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6095,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5480\/revisions\/6095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}