Killing Patient Zero (2019)
- Directed by
- Laurie Lynd
- Genre
- documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- MA15+
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian man who was among the first HIV/AIDS patients in North America. It explains how he was wrongly blamed as the source of the epidemic after a book used his case to show how the disease spread.
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What happens
Killing Patient Zero is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 2019. The film is a portrait of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man who was one of the earliest diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in North America, but became incorrectly demonized as "patient zero" for the epidemic after his role in the early story of the disease was used to illustrate contact tracing in Randy Shilts's 1987 book And the Band Played On. The film premiered on April 26, 2019, at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. It was released commercially on July 26, 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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