AEGiS-PRn: Sundance Channel Joins Viacom in Company-Wide AIDS Initiative: Programming Includes Sundance Film Festival Award-Winner 'Silverlake Life: The View from Here'

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Sundance Channel Joins Viacom in Company-Wide AIDS Initiative: Programming Includes Sundance Film Festival Award-Winner 'Silverlake Life: The View from Here'

PRNewswire - December 5, 2002

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Sundance Channel joins Viacom in a company-wide initiative to raise awareness about the ongoing global AIDS crisis. As part of its efforts, Sundance Channel will present acclaimed documentary films about living with AIDS on January 13th and 14th. Monte Bramer's "Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End" profiles the National Book Award-winning writer Paul Monette, one of the world's most eloquent voices on the subject of AIDS: the film, which won the Audience Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, was made with Monette's collaboration shortly before his death in 1995. Peter Friedman and Tom Joslin's "Silverlake Life: The View from Here" is an intimate, deeply moving portrait of a gay couple, Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, coping with AIDS. Joslin, a filmmaker and teacher, began the video diary when he and Massi learned they were both infected with HIV. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and Freedom and Expression Awards at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. "Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End" airs January 13th at 9:00 ET/PT. "Silverlake Life: The View from Here" airs January 14th at 9:00pm ET/PT.

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This special presentation is part of a flurry of activity centered on World AIDS day and follows the announcement of an initiative announced earlier by Viacom and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to eradicate ignorance about HIV/AIDS. The Viacom campaign will launch officially on January 6, 2003, and will include PSA's, Programming and Employee Education elements across the Viacom family including Showtime Networks.

Under the creative direction of Robert Redford, Sundance Channel brings television viewers daring and engaging feature films, shorts, documentaries, world cinema and animation, shown uncut and with no commercials. Through its original programs, Sundance Channel connects viewers with filmmakers, the creative process, and the world of independent film. Launched in 1996, Sundance Channel is a venture between Robert Redford, Showtime Networks Inc., and Universal Studios. Sundance Channel operates independently of the non-profit Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, but shares the overall Sundance mission of supporting independent artists and providing them with wider opportunities to present their work to audiences. Sundance Channel's website address is http://www.sundancechannel.com .

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