Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine

Every day, 15,000 people get infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Nearly thirty years after HIV was first discovered, there have been ony two large-scale trials to test the effectivenes of potential vaccines. Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine asks why an AIDS vaccine has been so elusive, what progress is being made, and what obstacles remain.

[text adapted from kikim.com]

CREDITS

Writen and Produced by Alex Backstead, Bill Jersey, Max Salomon, Michael Shwarz
Directed by Michael Shwarz
Photographed by Greg Andracke, Jeremy Leach, Vic Losick, Andrew Thompson, Bill Jersey, Max Salomon
Edited by Alex Backstead, and Max Salomon
Music by Christopher Rife
Produced by Kikim Media and Quest Productions for PBS

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Biology

AWARDS

2005, Television: Kikim Media Production Award

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Short Films
Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.