The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter (1993)

Directed by

David Paperny

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary is built from the video diary of Dr. Peter Jepson-Young, a doctor living with AIDS in the early 1990s. It shows his daily life and his thoughts on his condition.

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What happens

The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter is a 1993 Canadian documentary film produced by Arthur Ginsberg. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is based upon the video diary of Peter Jepson-Young, better known as "Dr. Peter", which documented his life as a person with AIDS. The film was originally broadcast as an episode of the CBC Television documentary series Witness, and was later picked up for broadcast in the United States by HBO. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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