| Louise Hogarth Director: Angels in the Dust |
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Louise Hogarth was the co-producer for the 1993 Academy Award winning documentary, The Panama
Deception, and since then she has devoted her life and career to projects that address social and human rights
issues, especially HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Her most recent documentary, The Gift, is an unflinching look at a suicidal cycle of HIV-positive gay men who deliberately pass along the virus, the gift that keeps on giving. After its premiere at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival, the film screened at almost 200 festivals and was acquired by the Sundance Channel as the centerpiece of its annual week of AIDS awareness programming.
When she was in South Africa to investigate the horrific phenomenon of baby rape (there's a primitive myth that sex with a virgin can cure any disease, spawning multiple new HIV infections and severe trauma in the native infant population), she came across a proverbial miracle worker named Marion Cloete, the woman depicted in Angels In The Dust. Under the banner of her non-profit, socially conscious Dream Out Loud Films, Louise spent the next three years winning her trust in order to tell this exceptional, life-affirming story.
Her most recent documentary, The Gift, is an unflinching look at a suicidal cycle of HIV-positive gay men who deliberately pass along the virus, the gift that keeps on giving. After its premiere at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival, the film screened at almost 200 festivals and was acquired by the Sundance Channel as the centerpiece of its annual week of AIDS awareness programming.
When she was in South Africa to investigate the horrific phenomenon of baby rape (there's a primitive myth that sex with a virgin can cure any disease, spawning multiple new HIV infections and severe trauma in the native infant population), she came across a proverbial miracle worker named Marion Cloete, the woman depicted in Angels In The Dust. Under the banner of her non-profit, socially conscious Dream Out Loud Films, Louise spent the next three years winning her trust in order to tell this exceptional, life-affirming story.
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