Objective

FORGET ME NOT is a post-"AIDS film" film. While it tells the story of individual lives lost, it also addresses contemporary questions of how to cope with great loss, or with the burden of surviving -– and remembering. This is relevant not only for those grieving loved ones lost to AIDS, but for all in our times, especially now as we experience the scars of war and terrorism. The film shows a unique public-private partnership in which grass-roots action helps heal a local community and, unexpectedly, achieves national prominence.

A film about this important historical, social and political issue, featuring high-visibility figures from politics and the arts, FORGET ME NOT will have broad national appeal. We expect international film festival screenings as well as semi-theatrical distribution in targeted geographical markets. We also anticipate national and international television broadcast.

The film will be distributed educationally as an important tool for community and civic organizations around issues of grief and loss, community development, urban renewal, environmental protection, and public art. It will be a definitive record of the social history of AIDS, but also of the universal quest to find solace and meaning amidst loss. As part of ongoing outreach efforts, we plan to use the film as a resource on a national level to generate awareness and discussion of the question of "memorial in our times," made especially relevant because of the 9/11 disaster and mounting losses to war.