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White Hotel

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Pros	• intimate and personal account of a global crisis • much more compelling than you think • the filmmakers find humor and levity in a terribly depressing topic

Cons	• lack of professional gloss

The Bottom Line - Painful, revealing, an honest, "White Hotel" is a documentary unlike any other.

Description

•	Honest documentary about the African AIDS pandemic
•	Now playing at the Two Boots Den of Cin in New York

Guide Review

When Filmmakers Don't Hide Behind The Camera... San Francisco filmmakers Tobi Solvang and Dianne Griffin travel to Eritrea to make a film about AIDS, but they become drawn into the story and become subjects of their own film. Unafraid to show their own failings, the result seems less like a professional documentary than a personal account of their voyage into fascinating and horrifying territory.

		Related Resources
		• Offical Site • AIDS Guide Site • Documentary Films

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