Health Supreme

The 2016 London International Film Festival is to screen a controversial 30 minute documentary that questions the world's orthodox views of HIV and AIDS. 

Positive Hell, written and narrated by journalist Joan Shenton and directed by Andi Reiss of Yellow Entertainment, will be shown on Sunday April 17 at the Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey, in a double bill with Sillhouette Secrets, also directed by Andi Reiss.

Positive Hell - made to complement last year's re-publication of Shenton's equally controversial 1998 HIV and AIDS book, Positively False - tells the personal stories of five people who lived their lives in fear of their HIV-positive diagnoses but who did not receive the standard HIV treatments. All went on to live entirely normally for decades, not least having children - the outcome of unprotected sex which has always been the ultimate taboo - who themselves are now healthy adults and HIV negative.

Joan Shenton said: "Positively False and Positive Hell together present a damning indictment of the orthodox approach to HIV and AIDS, in which a relatively quick, questionable diagnosis can lead to a lifetime of mental and physical anguish. Had people not taken that test, so many would have gone on to live utterly normal lives.

"We have been saying this for 18 years and science has still not produced any vaccine or other cure, nor proven that a retrovirus called HIV is the cause of the various old, known diseases lumped together under the name AIDS."