Cyberspace you terrify me....I have decided to try and share this movie-making experience with you guys. On one hand, I am very excited to get some feedback and an outlet of sorts, and on the other hand I am shaking in my boots and I'm horrified that I'll come off as a f-ing idiot.
Mostly because people, 2 people to be exact, were asking me questions like: "Why are YOU the one to do this movie?"
"What happened in YOUR life to make you qualified to make this film?" and "What makes YOU soooo special, that people would actually care about what you have to say?"
The truth is I don't really know; I don't feel like I ever consciously decided that I was going to make a documentary on this topic, it just sorta happened, little by little.
I am no more affected by the AIDS epidemic than the next person, I mean...I know a couple of people who are HIV-positive, and I had a neighbor who was really sick and subsequently died from complications, bless her.
I also have some cousins in South Africa whom I have never met, that are affected rather directly as I understand, since I have yet to actually speak to them; I don't know much, so that hardly makes me any more qualified as a film-maker...
Then there was this guy Sherman that I met a Hollywood party 8 or 9 years ago. He was talking about a doctor who was claiming to have discovered the cure for AIDS.
If you know me, you know that I am rather addicted to Google, both because I love a useless fact, but also because I am utter hypochondriac, for whom Google is a necessary evil.
Anyway, Sherman told me that this man, Dr. Gary Davis, had concocted this "cure" he called "goat-serum" which was, not surprisingly considering the name, a serum based on the antibodies from a goat that was infected with HIV.
I went home and Googled it, read some articles, found some video clips, told some friends and then I probably got distracted by something more important, like what to have for lunch...or Googling excessive hair loss in teenage girls.
All I can say is somewhere a little seed must have been planted, and now years later, much like the nature of the syndrome in question...(lame, but I'm cheesy like that)....it seems to have become something bigger than me. And all I know is that I want to make this film, and that I want to do it the way I think it will have the biggest impact, especially on teens and young adults.
And to those (2) people who still don't understand WHY I want to make this film, it's really pretty simple...I don't want to get AIDS, I don't want YOU to get AIDS, and I wish there was a way for all of those who have already gotten it, to UN-get-it! -Comprende?
The film is not about statistics, its about people but if you need some hard facts, here is a Link.
...a little something for the left side of the brain, never hurt anyone.
So yes I AM the one....why? Because I'm doing it!
Glad to see someone else uses Google as their personal doctor as well. Can't wait to hear more from your blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks Erin. -yes I am glad as well, no one likes to feel alone, the hair loss turned out to be the sad ending to a bad perm as far as I remember, but terrifying none the less...
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