Date/Time
Date(s) - Jan 31 2012
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Anthology Film Archives
Categories
NYWIFT’s Member Screening Series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue @ 2nd Street. There will be a Q&A following the screening, and an after-party with cash bar and complimentary food at Dempsey’s Pub, 61 2nd Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets.
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
What if your life-saving medicine contained deadly viruses – and the drug manufacturers, the government, and your own doctors knew but failed to warn you?
Through the eyes of survivors and family members, Bad Blood chronicles how a “miracle” treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans. Faced with evidence that pharmaceutical companies and government regulators knew the product was contaminated with deadly viruses from the 1960s through the early 1990s, the hemophilia community launched a powerful and inspiring fight to right the system that failed them and to make it safer for all.
Go to http://www.nywift.org/article.aspx?id=3538 for all information.
