Film maker and journalist, Lisa Biagiotti introduced her new film ‘Deepsouth’ at the University of Mississippi yesterday evening at the Overby Center. The film ‘Deepsouth’ follows three stories that have a connection in some form or fashion to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the southern region.
Biagiotti said that her experience with this film was life changing. “I stumbled across this story through stats,” says Biagiotti. Biagotti explains that she wanted the story to be different from any other documentary done on HIV/AIDS.
This documentary is more of the effect of the disease from a social view of the south. “Activism in the south than anywhere else,” Biagiotti said.
Biagiotti traveled throughout the south talking to over 400 people to find the angle that she was going with for the story. Her first story was on a college student who lives a homosexual lifestyle and also has HIV/AIDS. He struggles through the everyday realities of the disease and the lifestyle that he lives. The second story is based upon two best friends who have a retreat for people who suffer from HIV/AIDS. The story follows them through the weekend of the retreat. The final story follows a women from Alabama who activates for better funding in the south for HIV/AIDS. She attends different conferences, seminars, and panels discussing her frustrations. Each story shows the social and economical struggles of those in the south suffering from the disease or speaking out against it.
This is Lisa Biagiotti first big independent film, “The films budget was only 7,000 dollars,” Biagiotti said. She explains that with this film she had nothing but time. She wanted people to see the truth behind the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the south.
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