POZ by Michael Anan

Directed by Carbonell Award WinnerMichael Leeds, POZ is set in 2003 and concerns a young man with tuberculosis who discovers that if he was HIV+ he would be covered by insurance. He arranges to date an HIV+ man with the idea of being infected. The dramedy examines an unconventional love between the two men and an odd family of characters each dealing with their own demons: a famous aging actress struggling with asthma, an eccentric woman who speaks with angels, a middle aged flamboyant queen with a dying father, and a young man who died of AIDS early in the health crisis.