{"id":1554,"date":"2012-12-14T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:56:59","slug":"k-alumnus-documentary-film-draws-high-acclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-alumnus-documentary-film-draws-high-acclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"K Alumnus\u2019 Documentary Film Nominated for an Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary film by <strong>David France \u201981<\/strong> titled\u00a0 &#8220;How to Survive a Plague,&#8221; about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is one of five in the category to be nominated for an Oscar Award. Oscar nomination is not the only recognition France has received for his film. The Gothic Independent Film Awards and the Boston Society of Film Critics voted it the best documentary film of 2012. And the Independent Spirit Awards, which occur the day before the Oscars, has nominated &#8220;How to Survive a Plague&#8221; for Best Documentary. France\u2019s film chronicles the tireless efforts of activists in the 1980s and early 1990s bring attention to the disease and mount a response appropriate to it&#8211;in terms of research, social policies, and human dignity compassion. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/13\/fashion\/how-to-survive-a-plague-provides-a-silver-lining-on-aids.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1355507882-8S5xtAuoKd9ncstm71NS+w\">article<\/a> on France and the film appeared recently in the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary film by David France \u201981 titled\u00a0 &#8220;How to Survive a Plague,&#8221; about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is one of five in the category to be nominated for an Oscar Award. Oscar nomination is not the only recognition France has received for his film. The Gothic Independent Film Awards and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[31,30,20],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-awards","tag-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>K Alumnus\u2019 Documentary Film Nominated for an Oscar - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A documentary film by David France \u201981 titled\u00a0 &quot;How to Survive a Plague,&quot; about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is one of five in the category to be\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-alumnus-documentary-film-draws-high-acclaim\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K Alumnus\u2019 Documentary Film Nominated for an Oscar - 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