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Living with the Tiger

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Producer(s)	Mike Thomas, Rak Wongsombut
Director(s)	Mike Thomas
Release Date	2009
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	86 min
Format(s)	none
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

There are many stories about AIDS victims that ‘the world would rather forget’. The lives of the children of Baan Gerda however, are about hope and optimism.

Living with the Tiger is an intimate and moving story about a group of HIV infected orphans living in a small village in rural Thailand. It follows two of the children on an emotional journey as they are re-united with the families that had once abandoned them at an AIDS hospice.

Despite their traumatic experiences, they embark on the most unlikeliest of ventures for a group of teenagers from the countryside; a performance in an opera and the opportunity to send an important message to the people that had shunned them.

The film raises issues which are important to everyone; identity family and belonging. The underlying message however, focuses on the stigma that HIV sufferers around the world have to deal with.

Essentially, this is a film about understanding and how children that society had given up on deserve to be treated like anyone else.

Official Site	http://www.livingwiththetiger.com/
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Last Updated On:	October 08, 2010