Jean Carlomusto

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Jean Carlomusto

Profession

Director, Producer, Camera department, Editor, Cinematographer

A lifelong supporter of the fight against HIV/AIDS, she founded the Media Production Unit at Gay Men's Health Crisis in 1987 and was one of the first members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
Earned her bachelor's degree from Long Island University and her master's from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
Quote: "I don't think it's too far-fetched to believe that an end to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is possible in my lifetime․ In fact, I think we must have the vision and the will to bring about this end․"
Quote: "[on documenting ACT UP's Wall Street protest in March 1987] "I had never been in the middle of a civil disobedience protest with my camera․ I found it exhilarating to be part of a group that was finally fighting back․""
Is a professor of media arts and the director of the Television Center at Long Island University at Post
Best known as a documentary filmmaker who directed "Larry Kramer in Love and Anger" and "Sex in an Epidemic․"
Created the interactive video art exhibit "Offerings," which has been featured in exhibitions at the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Durban Art Gallery in South Africa
Her projects are often very personal, most notably "To Catch a Glimpse," in which she explores her own family history to confirm rumors about her grandmother's death

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