Maggie Betts On 'The Carrier': 'This Movie Is About...The Possibility Of Seeing An HIV-Free Population'

Filmmaker Maggie Betts On 'The Carrier': 'This Movie Is About...The Possibility Of Seeing An HIV-Free Population'

Gotham socialite and filmmaker Maggie Betts makes her directorial debut with the compelling new documentary, 'The Carrier,' which premieres tonight (Apr. 21) at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The story follows Mutinta, a young Zambian woman who's pregnant and in a legally polygamous marriage. When she discovers she's HIV positive, she sets out to keep her baby, and community, virus-free.
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RC: And now you're headed to this film festival. You'll do a lot of press junkets and talk about this movie as if it's a commodity, essentially. How do you feel about that?
MB: The movie is about an idea, the idea of the possibility of seeing an HIV free population in the next 10 or 15 years, and however I can sell that idea to people to make believe in that, is worth the effort for me.

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