#ItsNotOver Film

A Film by Andrew Jenks

HELP US FIGHT HIV/AIDS

Meet The Cast

PAIGE

Paige is a college freshman who has been living with HIV her entire life. After years of battling stigma, she has come full circle, becoming a young advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness and using her experience to challenge assumptions and prejudice. Andrew first meets Paige at a dance marathon at her college in Indiana before taking off with Paige and her two roommates for an impromptu road-trip.

Meet The Cast

SARANG

An Indian playwright, Sarang is openly gay in a country where homosexuality is outlawed. Come along for the ride as Sarang’s new play, addressing gay marriage, makes its way from rehearsal to public debut. While in India, Andrew also meets Sarang’s boyfriend, witnesses the personal stories of HIV+ orphans, and experiences the staggering poverty of the infamous Falkland Road.

Meet The Cast

LUCKY

A teacher and mentor, Lucky is working to keep young South Africans out of the type of trouble that he ran into at an early age. Lucky acts as a tour guide around Khayelitsha, the largest and fastest growing township in South Africa with some of the highest rates of HIV in the country. As Andrew follows him to work and around his hometown, Lucky emanates an exuberance and zeal for life that is an inspiring celebration of the efforts of a single, committed individual.

About The Film.

It's Not Over tells the inspiring story of three courageous millennials from around the world who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Award winning filmmaker Andrew Jenks takes viewers on a journey across India, South Africa and the United States to experience the epidemic first hand. The result is a deeply personal and uplifting story that is rarely represented in popular culture.

Jenks takes viewers on a journey to South Africa, where together with Lucky, explores an area with more people living with HIV than anywhere

else in the world; to India, where Sarang, an openly gay HIV+ theater director fights to preserve his way of life; and to Middle America where Paige highlights how she has turned her bad experiences of being bullied and teased into something good as a youth advocate for HIV.

It's Not Over was made possible by the M·A·C AIDS Fund and will be available to view via Netflix, SnagFilms and Pivot where available.

Available On:

Airing on Pivot TV Nov 19 at 7:00pm EST/4pm PST and World Aids Day, Dec 1 at 7:00pm EST/4pm PST

The M·A·C AIDS Fund serves people of all ages, races and sexes affected by HIV and AIDS. We partner with bold visionaries who are confronting the epidemic in countries and communities where people are most neglected, off the radar, and at highest risk. The title of this film is 'It's Not Over', and we couldn't agree more.

MAF celebrates humanity, life, creativity, and individuality. Stories like those of Paige, Sarang, and Lucky remind us that all is not lost. We really can make a difference and we have the tools to end this epidemic. Help us fight HIV/AIDS by buying VIVA GLAM products. Every cent of the selling price of M·A·C VIVA GLAM lipstick and lipglass is donated to the M·A·C AIDS Fund.

Andrew Jenks

Andrew Jenks is an award-winning filmmaker who has lived and filmed all over the world. Often dubbed "the voice of his generation" Jenks' previous work includes Andrew Jenks, Room 335, The Zen of Bobby V, MTV's World of Jenks and most recently Posterized: The Story of Shawn Bradley.

His productions have aired on HBO and ESPN.com's Grantland platform, and his MTV World of Jenks series garnered over 5 million viewers, marking MTV’s highest rated series launch ever. Jenks was also the face for MTV News' coverage for the 2012 Presidential Election, traveling the country speaking with Millennials and asking questions of Presidential candidates.

Jenks has received praise from The New York Times for his ability to 'take his camera into a world that is usually invisible and shine a light on a population that many of us would just as soon forget.'

In filming It's Not Over, Jenks hopes to inspire his generation to care about a disease that affects more than 34 million people around the world, many of whom lack access to care or don't know they are infected.