State of Denial: A Documentary Film

State of Denial aims to reveal the human experience behind the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. The film takes viewers into the lives of six people struggling to survive with HIV in the face of "social stigma, a severe lack of access to lifesaving treatment, and their president Thabo Mbeki's controversial stance of the connection between HIV and AIDS." The film includes in-depth interviews and conversations with people living with HIV/AIDS, politicians, health care professionals, and activists.

Producer/director Elaine Epstein is a native South African who has worked extensively in AIDS and public health. The film offers her view of the complex forces driving the disease's spread - and the debate around it - in South Africa.