HBO's documentary series will premiere
The Battle of amfAR on Sunday, World AIDS Day, on HBO 2. HBO
will premiere the film the following day.
The Battle of amfAR documents
how two very different women – Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor and
research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim – joined forces to create the
American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), America's first AIDS
research foundation, forever changing the fight against HIV/AIDS.
A trailer for the film includes
national press conference footage of the late Elizabeth Taylor
saying, “I was made so aware of this huge loud silence regarding
AIDS that I finally thought to myself, “Bitch, do something
yourself.'” (The trailer is embedded on this page. Visit
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The film's description reads: “By
tracing the roots of the AIDS pandemic – through the use of new and
archival interviews, news broadcasts, time lapse fluorescence
microscopy and animation – THE BATTLE OF AMFAR educates the viewer
on the history of the stigma of the virus by examining the political
and social attitudes towards those infected since the emergence of
the disease.”
The Battle of amfAR is directed
by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the award-winning team behind
The Celluloid Closet and Common Threads: Stories from the
Quilt, and executive produced by fashion mogul Kenneth Cole.