Beat the Drum

Ananias, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and immigrant, performs the folkloric Danza de los Viejitos (the Dance of the Old Men). Originally from...

An experimental essay film reflecting on love, temporality, memory, absence, and living with HIV.

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

A story about life, love, survival and death of a family struggling to find a place under the sun. The son got infected with HIV and that's when the...

Two strangers meet at a train station on the day of an LGBT march. Their conversation drifts from topic to topic, as they flirt, argue, do small...

Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local...

When a young dancer moves to San Francisco in the early 1980s, signs of a sickness test his relationships, as well as his lifelong dream in this...

Amid the late ’80s pop craze and rising HIV epidemic, 12-year-old Boaz uncovers a devastating secret about the father he idolizes that...

With frank language and explicit imagery, this video addresses difficult issues such as sex and injection drug use in the age of AIDS. It is...

Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function...