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PRNewswire - November 29, 2006
What: Screening of "3 Needles" Benefiting AIDS Healthcare Foundation (Evening includes live auction of movie props from the film)
When: Friday, December 1st 7:00 p.m. (World AIDS Day)
Where: Laemmle Sunset 5 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider in the United States which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, in association with Covington USA, Wolfe Releasing and eMotion Pictures are pleased to announce a benefit screening of the film "3 Needles" on December 1st, World AIDS Day at 7:00 p.m. at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. Tickets are $25.00 each. A percentage of the proceeds will benefit AIDS Healthcare Foundation's free HIV/AIDS treatment, care, and prevention programs. Further information about AHF can be found at http://www.aidshealth.org.
A film by Thom Fitzgerald, "3 Needles," tells the captivating stories of people struggling with the AIDS pandemic in South Africa, China and North America. The film stars Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men United), Oscar nominee Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry), Oscar nominee Stockard Channing (The West Wing), Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck) and Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy). The Ottawa Express describes the film as, "a gripping, heartbreaking, excoriating triptych which examines the crisis in an intelligent, measured way." For more information about the film, please visit http://www.myspace.com/3needles.
The evening will also include a live auction of movie props and costumes from the film, generously donated by eMotion Pictures, also to benefit AHF. Items up for bid include: a nun outfit worn by Chloe Sevigny, a t-shirt worn by Shawn Ashmore, rosary beads worn in the film, a signed script and film posters.
SOURCE AIDS Healthcare Foundation
http://www.myspace.com/3needles
http://www.aidshealth.org
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