The mistreatment and persecution of the LGBTQ community in Chechnya has been an ongoing issue, but in March 2017 a glaring spotlight was put on the Russian republic as reports of gay and bisexual men ...

Award winning journalist and first-time filmmaker David France shows us why documentary is one of the most powerful mediums in the world in How to Survive a Plague, his intimate and visceral ...

Between 1981—when AIDS claimed its first reported cases—and 1996, there was not one drug for treating HIV. In those 15 years, as 343,000 Americans, many of them in the arts, died without hope, an ...

David France’s new HBO documentary, “Welcome to Chechnya,” looks at the ongoing campaign to eradicate gay people in the Chechen Republic. France worked on the ground with activists in Moscow and ...

“My youth, and my entire adult life, has been under the cloud of AIDS,” says David France. France moved to New York in June 1981, just one month prior to a New York Times report about 41 cases of “gay ...

From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker David France (“How to Survive a Plague”) could sense the scale of the threat looming on the horizon. A long-time ...

This week: Oscar-nominated filmmaker David France on plagues and platforms… Pulitzer-finalist Karen Russell sinks her teeth into a new story collection… Bestseller queen Jackie Collins tells you how ...