Match +: Love in the Time of HIV
Dir. Priya Desai and Ann Kim
Producers: Jocelyn Glatzer
Awarded $25,000 for post production 2011
Link: webapp.sundance.org/docsource/projects/matchpositive

THE FILM
How do you find love and marriage when you are HIV-positive? And how do you do that in India, where marriage is a must but HIV/AIDS is unspeakable? Shame led some people to marry without disclosing their diagnosis and others to remain single. Twenty-five years ago the doctor who discovered the first cases of HIV in India could do little more than console her patients. Now she also acts as their matchmaker, helping HIV-positive people fulfill their familial duty as well as their own wish to marry.

THE FILMMAKERS

Priya Giri Desai’s work in print and broadcast media spans a decade and includes work for outlets such as LIFE magazine as well as PBS and independent film projects including the health disparities series UNNATURAL CAUSES (PBS), ENLIGHTEN UP! (theatrical) and FORGOTTEN ELLIS ISLAND (PBS), a film about public health and immigration in America. She earned an Emmy nomination for her work as producer and writer on the children’s series POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER where her love of reporting on cultures and communities came together as she conceptualized and field produced several shows about the lives of children around the world. Priya was a San Francisco Film Society FilmHouse Resident in 2010 and is currently a BAVC New Mediamakers Fellow.

Ann S. Kim is a director/producer of national PBS programs. Her work on independent documentaries includes TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK (premiere, Full Frame 2008), SECRECY (premiere, Sundance 2008), and THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN (PBS). With a specific interest in health, Ann worked on THE AGE OF AIDS (Frontline), UNNATURAL CAUSES (PBS), both duPont Award Winners, and MyType2, a website for teens with Type 2 Diabetes. Her 2008 feature on North Korea (THE WORLD, PRI/BBC) was recognized as Best Radio Story by the Asian American Journalists Association. She is a past participant of the CPB/PBS Producers Academy, LEF fellow of Flaherty Film Seminar, and Sundance Creative Producing Lab. Ann recently reported from Botswana as a fellow of the International Reporting Project (IRP).