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 Anne-christine d’Adesky
Anne-christine d'Adesky is a journalist, author, filmmaker and community
AIDS activist. She is the founder and Co-Executive Director of WE-ACTx
(Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment) that provides HIV
treatment to Rwandan genocide rape survivors. She is also the Executive
Director of AIDS, Medicine & Miracles, a San Francisco-based national
AIDS organization that offers holistic HIV educational programs.
As a journalist, Ms. d’Adesky has covered HIV treatment
and research issues since 1984. She is the former Editor and
founder of HIV Plus, a leading US journal on HIV research and
treatment and freelances for the IAVI Report, amfAR
Treatment Insider, and POZ magazine among other publications. As part
of the 2000, XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban,
South Africa, Ms. d’Adesky was the US co-organizer of
weeklong satellite conference for HIV-positive women from the
local townships of Durban. In 2001, she co-organized a satellite
conference on access to HIV treatment for women in Kampala,
Uganda. This meeting resulted in the creation of an East African "Women's
Treatment Access Campaign"(WTAC), a new global grassroots
initiative designed to promote women and girl's access to HIV
care and treatment and to advocate for policy changes. She
also organized a community meeting in New York during the UN
Special Session on AIDS to discuss potential PWA/NGO access
to generic medicines.
In 2000, Ms. d'Adesky was the inargural recipient of an award
from the American Foundation for AIDS Research for "Pioneering
Public Information about AIDS."
Her first novel, Under the Bone (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1994) is set in the tense political period of post-Duvalier
Haiti. The book stems from her years of covering Haitian political
and human rights issues in the mid-1980’s and early 1990’s.
Her most recent book, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global
AIDS (Verso, July 2004), is about the challenges of implementing
AIDS therapy in resource-poor countries and settings.
 Shanti
Avirgan
Shanti Avirgan is a writer, researcher and filmmaker who
grew up in Tanzania and Costa Rica and is currently based
in Brooklyn, New York. Ms Avirgan received a B.A. in Latin
American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin,
was a Fulbright Scholar in Bahia, Brazil, and is currently
pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at New York University. Her
dissertation will examine the emergence of the “Brazilian
AIDS model” and how Brazilian public health expertise
is being transferred to other developing countries.
Ms Avirgan has worked as a researcher for documentaries in Brazil
and the United States. As a director and producer, she has made
two short films: BUSH AGAINST BUSH, about a group of women protesting
the first inauguration of President Bush (Finalist in the Planet
Out Online Film Festival, 2001) and RESISTANCE: TREATING AIDS IN
BRAZIL (2003), which has shown around the world. PILLS PROFIT PROTEST
is her first feature-length documentary production.
 Ann T. Rossetti
Ann T. Rossetti is a New York-based filmmaker who, after
studying engineering, attended art school where, as a student,
she shot Rose Troche's debut feature GO FISH. Ushering in
the New Queer Cinema movement, the film attained a historical
place in independent filmmaking and also achieved international
acclaim, winning awards at festivals worldwide. Ms Rossetti’s
other cinematography credits include the feature documentary
ESCAPE TO LIFE: THE STORY OF ERIKA AND KLAUS MANN directed
by Gretta Schiller and Andrea Wiese; and BY HOOK OR BY CROOK,
an independent narrative feature directed by Silas Dodge.
As an editor, Ms. Rossetti has worked on documentaries such
as RULES OF THE GAME; the PBS show, IN THE LIFE; as well
as promos for The Sundance Channel. As an independent producer,
she has made advocacy media for non-profit organizations
such as American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters' House and
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Since 1997,
Ann has worked for United Nations Television Department as
a freelance camera person and video engineer. PILLS PROFITS
PROTEST is her first full-length documentary as a director
and co-producer.
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