Based on your previous interest in our events, we thought we'd share information about our upcoming screening and filmmaker discussion of "The Rise of the Killer Virus" with you.
We hope you can join us on Thursday, April 23, in New York. RSVP
today -- and feel free to pass along to colleagues and others who might be interested as well.
Sincerely,
The Pulitzer Center Team
The Rise of the Killer Virus
The
Rise of the Killer Virus screens on Thursday, April 23, as the second in Pulitzer Center's film series at New York's Paley Center for Media.
After the screening, director Carl Gierstorfer discusses the film along with Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer and two
of the key medical researchers in the documentary who are seeking answers to the origins of HIV: Dr. Dirk Teuwen of Belgium and Michael Worobey,
professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.
The documentary delves into the origins of HIV and is associated with Gierstorfer's Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project "HIV's
Origins-And the Lessons for Today."
To follow the footsteps of researchers and discover the phases through which the disease has passed during its century-old history, visit
the interactive.
Blood tests reveal that new viruses regularly jump from wild animals to humans. Image by Renaat Lambeets, DOCDAYS Productions.
DRC, 2013. Writer & Director: Carl Gierstorfer
Director of Photography: Renaat Lambeets
Editor & Art Director: Marcel Ozan Riedel
Executive Producer: Antje Boehmert
The Rise of the Killer Virus is
produced by
DOCDAYS Production, YUZU Productions,
CONGOO, for Smithsonian Networks,
ZDF/ARTE, CCTV 10, RTBF, and VRT.
The Rise of the Killer Virus Thursday, April 23 6:30 pm (doors open at 6 pm) The Paley Center for Media 25 West 52nd Street New York, NY 10019