Killing Patient Zero (2019)
1h 39m
Running Time
July 26, 2019Release Date
Killing Patient Zero (2019)
1h 39m
Running Time
July 26, 2019Release Date
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After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.
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Cast & Crew.
Gaétan Dugas
Himself (archive footage)
Fran Lebowitz
Herself
Ronald Reagan
Himself (archive footage)
Anita Bryant
Self
Randy Shilts
Himself (archive footage)
Marcus A. Conant
Self
Richard Berkowitz
Himself
Brian Freeman
Himself
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Killing Patient Zero is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 2019. The film is a portrait of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man who was one of the earliest diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in North America, but became incorrectly demonized as "patient zero" for the epidemic after his role in the early story of the disease was used to illustrate contact tracing in Randy Shilts's 1987 book And the Band Played On.The film premiered on April 26, 2019, at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. It was released commercially on July 26, 2019.