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Nyack Center to host screening of Oscar-nominated AIDS documentary

Published: January 17, 2013 1:13 PM
By NEWSDAY.COM  

quot;Plague,quot; an Academy Award-nominated documentary, chronicles the activities

Photo credit: Handout | "Plague," an Academy Award-nominated documentary, chronicles the activities of ACT-UP in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. (Jan. 17, 2013)

The Rivertown Film Society will screen the 2013 Academy Award nominee for best documentary, "How To Survive a Plague," at the Nyack Center at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The documentary traces the role of the AIDS activist organization ACT-UP in pushing government agencies and drug companies into action as the AIDS epidemic spread in the gay population in the 1980s. The film is unrated.

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