David France Biography

Filmmaker David France is the director and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated and critically-acclaimed How to Survive a Plague the documentary about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The film earned him The John Schlesinger Award (given to a first-time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker) from the Provincetown International Film Festival. He is also a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in national publications such as New York magazine Newsweek The New Yorker the New York Times Magazine and GQ. He has appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss the scientific basis that homosexuality is genetic. France is an ideal keynote speaker for colleges and universities corporate diversity in the workplace programs gay and lesbian conferences and events AIDS conferences and film and journalism schools.
How to Survive a Plague premiered as an official selection at Sundance Film Festival and made many year-end Best Films lists: Entertainment Weekly Esquire Time Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle Slate and the New York Times. France was hailed as the best new filmmaker of 2012 by the International Documentary Association the New York Film Critics Circle the Boston Film Critics and Boston Online Film Critics among others.

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