Description:
In
India, a culture obsessed with marriage but where AIDS is an
unspeakable disease, can you find love and companionship if you’re
HIV+? Ancient tradition and the new reality HIV collide. Lovesick is the modern love story that results.
Biography: Priya Giri Desai’s work in print and broadcast media spans two decades and includes work
for outlets such as LIFE magazine as well as PBS and independent film
projects including the health disparities series Unnatural Causes (PBS), Enlighten Up! (theatrical) and Forgotten Ellis
Island (PBS), a film about public health and immigration in
America. She earned an Emmy nomination for her work as producer and
writer on the children’s series Postcards From Buster (PBSKids)
where her love of reporting on cultures and communities came together
as she conceptualized and produced several shows about the lives of
children around the world. Priya is a graduate of Duke University
with a degree in Comparative Area Studies focusing South Asia. She is
a founding board member of The India Center Foundation, a cultural
non-profit organization in New York dedicated to the study of the
Indian subcontinent, the promotion of its cultural life, and the
unique relationship between India and the United States.
Ann S. Kim is an
independent filmmaker who has reported on a range of science global
health issues for public television and radio. Her credits include The Age of AIDS (FRONTLINE/PBS) and Unnatural Causes: Is
Inequality Making Us Sick?, both duPont-Columbia Award winners,
broadcast journalism highest honor. Outside of film, Ann is a
Director at global design firm IDEO. From 2016-2017, Ann served as
the first Chief Design Officer for the U.S. Surgeon General, bringing
design thinking into government and urgent public health issues of
addiction, opioids, and social isolation. Ann is a graduate of
Harvard College, with a joint degree in Anthropology & the Study
of Religion. She is a fellow of the US-Japan Leadership Program,
Women at Sundance Fellowship, and term member at the Council on
Foreign Relations. Ann is a founding board member of the Karen
Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship.
