This is My Face (Esta es Mi Cara) – Film Screening

This is My Face (Esta es Mi Cara) what lies inside a journey with HIV

CMR is pleased to invite you to a screening of the film (work in progress) ‘This is My Face‘, directed and produced by Angelica Cabezas Pino in collaboration with people living with HIV in Chile. The film will be shown at 6.30pm, 24th January 2019, at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews and will be followed by a Q&A with the film maker.

This event is free and open to all.

Film synopsis:

People living with HIV in Chile fear stigma so they conceal their condition and stay silent about their experiences with the illness that threatened their life. ´This is my Face´ challenges this taboo by using autobiographical photography and reflexive techniques through cinematic and ethnographic storytelling. What is revealed is an internal and hidden dialogue that evokes a lifeworld known to people who deal with an illness that radically change lives.

The maker of this film works alongside her collaborators to reveal how this journey unfolds on screen and challenge years of silence and misrepresentation.