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ABC To Develop Miniseries Based On ‘How To Survive A Plague’ Documentary

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 12:47pm PSTTags: ABC Studios, How To Survive A Plague
Nellie Andreeva

ABC Studios has acquired the rights to the Oscar-nominated documentary film How To Survive A Plague for a possible ABC miniseries, which would be executive produced by the docu’s writer-director David France and producers Howard Gertler and John Lyons. The documentary revolves around controversial AIDS activists who infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.

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OSCARS: Nominated Docs Traverse Challenging Territory

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday February 11, 2013 @ 9:03pm PSTTags: 5 Broken Cameras, How To Survive A Plague, Searching For Sugar Man, The Gatekeepers

Ari Karpel and David Mermelstein are AwardsLine contributors

From the homemade, unpolished qualities of 5 Broken Cameras and The Gatekeepers to the journalism of How To Survive A Plague and the investigations of The Invisible War and Searching For … Read More »

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