Killing Patient Zero

Killing Patient Zero
Film poster
Directed byLaurie Lynd
Written byLaurie Lynd
Produced byCorey Russell
CinematographyPaul Steinberg
Edited byTrevor Ambrose
Production
company
Fadoo Productions
Release date
  • April 26, 2019 (2019-04-26) (Hot Docs)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Killing Patient Zero is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 2019.[1] The film is a portrait of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man who was one of the earliest diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in North America, but became incorrectly demonized as "patient zero" for the epidemic after his role in the early story of the disease was used to illustrate contact tracing in Randy Shilts's 1987 book And the Band Played On.[2]

The film premiered on April 26, 2019, at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[3] It was released commercially on July 26, 2019.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Documentary Killing Patient Zero seeks to restore reputation of Quebec man unfairly targeted in AIDS epidemic". Toronto Star, April 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "Hot Docs 2019: Correcting the record on HIV's so-called patient zero". Now, April 25, 2019.
  3. ^ "Review: ‘Killing Patient Zero’". Point of View, April 26, 2019.
  4. ^ Peter Knegt, "Killing Patient Zero: How a Quebec flight attendant was falsely accused of bringing AIDS to America". CBC Arts, July 25, 2019.


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