OneMethod CD - Scott Lew AD - Matt Doyle CW - Dario Petruzzi Sr. Producer - Katie Link Exec Producer - Michelle Pilling Fela Director: Pedro Pinto DOP: Jonathan Auger Exec Producer: Taj Critchlow HOP: Amir Karimi LP: Calvin Barnard School Editorial Editor: Izzy Ehlrich DarlingVFX Colourist: Patrick Samienago Online/VFX Artist: Paul Binney VFX Producer: Faith Clark Exec Producer: Kristen Van Fleet Pirate Sound Director: Vanya Drakul Engineer: Kyle Anderson Original Music: Pirate Sound

Big F*cking Deal is a short film that explores the stigma and systemic inequality that people experience when living with HIV and additional challenges. Even though HIV can be medically managed, stigma and inequality continue to determine who gets consistent, safe care. When living with HIV includes facing mental health challenges, substance use, unstable housing, or discrimination, treatment can quickly become impossible to maintain. The film brings those lived realities to the surface, showing how a treatable condition can turn into a life-shaping crisis. The creative idea began with a simple insight: we often see unhoused people and look away. The film helps humanize those we disregard, especially the people for managing HIV without a strong support system. By fully inhabiting Jordan’s life, the story shows love, joy, loss, and deterioration, not as a moral failure, but as the result of stigma, shame, and eroding mental health. The film engenders empathy by showing how easily any life can unravel. https://smashstigma.ca/ SOCIAL LINKS CASEY HOUSE https://www.instagram.com/caseyhouseto/ Learn more at caseyhouse.ca

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