We invite you to celebrate Pride with us on June 30th with a very special screening and community dialogue on HIV and AIDS awareness. Currently youth ages 13-24 account for more than 20% of all new HIV diagnoses nationwide, and EVC youth filmmakers have been documenting how their communities are affected by HIV and AIDS since the 1980’s.

In the 1989 film AIDS: Facts Over Fear EVC Youth Producers explore the AIDS epidemic. As fear and homophobia spread throughout schools and communities there was an urgent need for public information. EVC youth interviewed their peers, health advocates, and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to address the need to inform the world about the new virus.

Join us to watch this pivotal documentary created by and for young people, then have an empowering discussion with special guests Playwright Donja R. Love and Dr. David Malebranche, the Senior Director of Global HIV Affairs at Gilead. Co-hosted by EVC Alumni Cirilo Ordonez and Raelene Holmes, we’ll discuss the “then and now” of HIV/AIDS in our community with the intention of sharing knowledge, love, and celebrating the progress of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.

The event will be recorded. The series is free and open to the public. Please consider donating to support young people changing the world one documentary at a time!

About EVC Presents: Docs & Dialogue:

EVC Presents: Docs & Dialogue is a monthly youth-produced virtual documentary screening and dialogue series led by EVC’s young people whose lives and communities are impacted by systemic inequities. These individuals share their stories about the world as they see it - with all its problems and possibilities.

Join us on the third or fourth Thursday of each month for a youth-produced documentary screening and discussion led by young people impacted by systems of oppression in our society.

About Educational Video Center:

Founded in 1984, the Educational Video Center (EVC) is a youth media organization that teaches documentary filmmaking as a means to develop artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of underserved young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. EVC’s vision is a society free from structural inequity where all young people are able to reach their full potential and affect real and lasting change in their communities and the world.