Deepsouth

Deepsouth is a 2012 American documentary film about the neglected HIV/AIDS crisis in the rural American South. Beneath layers of history, poverty, and now soaring HIV infections, three Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.
On December 1, 2014, the film was self-distributed and digitally released. Seventy (70) communities across the United States screened "deepsouth" for World AIDS Day with a 10-hour live-stream with cast/crew. The correct spelling of the title is: "deepsouth"—one word, no capitalization.
Synopsis.
Joshua Alexander, a college student, seeks the support of an underground gay family miles away from his suffocating Mississippi Delta hometown. With no funds and few resources, Monica Johnson tries tirelessly to unite reluctant participants at her annual HIV retreat in rural Louisiana. Kathie Hiers, an Alabama activist, spends 120 days a year on the road fighting a bureaucracy that continues to ignore the South.
Critical reception.
The film has become the quiet anthem of the current HIV/AIDS movement in the U.S. "deepsouth" has toured the international LGBTQ and human rights festival circuits, and was invited into communities on a 150-stop grassroots tour. Director Lisa Biagiotti has been invited to The White House, featured in "The New Yorker", and has presented the issue at the Clinton Global Initiative University.
The film is being taught as part of public health, law, journalism, sociology, nursing, gender studies and rural studies programs in universities across the country. The Mississippi Department of Health leverages "deepsouth" for sensitivity and anti-stigma training of new hire Disease Intervention Specialists.
"deepsouth" is an unconventional social issues documentary because of its approach to storytelling and style. Its three-part narrative embeds research and data in every scene, but without expert interviews or statistical plot points.
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