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No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>the heart of the matter\u003C/h2>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1994\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Language: \u003C/strong>English\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>56 min.\u003Cbr />\n16mm. Color.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Shot on 16mm by an all-women crew, \u003Cem>the heart of the matter\u003C/em> is a tender portrait of AIDS activist Janice Jirau and a landmark in feminist documentary history. The film traces Jirau’s transformation from devoted wife to fearless public health advocate after she contracts HIV from a husband who refused to practice safer sex, a story told with devastating clarity. Her journey is braided with a Greek chorus of HIV-positive women from diverse backgrounds whose testimonies dismantle the comforting myth that only “certain kinds” of women are at risk. In a pivotal scene, Jirau delivers a poignant account of surviving abuse from the pulpit of a Black church, and directors Gini Reticker and Amber Hollibaugh linger on the congregation’s embrace — an image that cuts through the stigma and stereotypes that defined the era.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Completed at the edge of feature length, the production itself was a political struggle, shaped by a protracted fundraising battle in a culture that routinely devalued women’s stories, and people with AIDS. That tension gives the film its palpable urgency. It is direct and unafraid to ask viewers to reflect on their own relationship to HIV transmission risk, a conversation the filmmakers also carried into public screenings.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">The collaboration brought together a remarkable team, including cinematographers Ellen Kuras and Maryse Alberti early in their careers, whose camera work gives the film both tenderness and resolve. Premiering at Sundance, where it won the Freedom of Expression Award, and later broadcast on PBS in 1994, \u003Cem>the heart of the matter\u003C/em> ultimately helped change policy through a grassroots impact campaign — and became a model for activist filmmaking for generations to come.\u003Cem>—Beandrea July\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cstrong>Directors:\u003C/strong> Gini Reticker, Amber Hollibaugh. \u003Cstrong>Producers:\u003C/strong> Gini Reticker, Amber Hollibaugh. \u003Cstrong>Cinematographers:\u003C/strong> Ellen Kuras, Maryse Alberti. \u003Cstrong>Editor:\u003C/strong> Ann Collins. \u003Cstrong>With: \u003C/strong>Janice Jirau.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Restoration funding provided by Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restored by Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television and the UCLA Film & Television Archive from 16mm A/B original negative rolls, D2 and U-Matic tapes. Laboratory services by Colorlab, Endpoint Audio Labs. 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