
The Other Side of AIDS
Robin Scovill's third feature gives the camera to doctors, scientists, journalists, and HIV-positive people who argue that HIV does not cause AIDS. The film interviews researchers who reject the mainstream model, letting them lay out alternative explanations for immune collapse and question the multi billion-dollar funding structure built around HIV treatment and prevention. It frames the AIDS response as a scientific consensus that got locked in before the evidence was settled, and argues that dissenting researchers have been sidelined rather than answered. Archival clips of public health campaigns and news coverage sit alongside the interviews, used to show how the HIV explanation became unquestioned in the press. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival. It does not present the case against HIV causation as balanced against mainstream virology; the entire runtime argues one side, treating the dissenting researchers as a suppressed minority rather than a fringe one, and leaves it to the viewer to weigh that against the scientific record.