David France

David France

Born 1959

Biography

David France is an award-winning journalist and ‘New York Times’ bestselling author who has been writing about AIDS since 1982, beginning in gay-community papers. Today he is one of the best-known chroniclers of the epidemic, having continued in the New York Times, where he was AIDS news writer in the nineties; Newsweek, where he was senior editor for investigations till 2003; and GQ and New York magazine, where he is a contributing editor. France has received the National Headliner Award and the GLAAD Media Award for his writing, and has seen his work inspire several films, among them the Emmy-nominated Showtime film Our Fathers. He created How to Survive a Plague, which garnered numerous awards, as a scripted miniseries for ABC with producers Howard Gertler and John Lyons.

Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Madrid

Director

Producer

Actor

Movies
1999

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

Documentaries
2016

The Eighties (series)

 

The Fight Against AIDS (E03)

Screenwriter

Performer