Dir: Nick Oceano, 90min.

Co-Presented by the San Diego Latino Film Festival.

Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black (MILK) wrote the screenplay for this story based on the short life of Pedro Zamora. In 1994, Bunim/Murray Productions made the groundbreaking decision to cast openly gay, HIV-positive Cuban-American Pedro Zamora as part of MTV's The Real World: San Francisco. Zamora's time in the Real World house on Lombard Street brought a face to the AIDS crisis; and U.S. President Bill Clinton credited Zamora with personalizing and humanizing those with the disease. In BMP Films' first scripted project, PEDRO celebrates the extraordinary life of Pedro Zamora, a young man who when he found out he was HIV positive at 17, made the courageous decision to dedicate the rest of his life to speaking out about his condition in an attempt to raise awareness about the disease in his community, even testifying before the United States Congress to argue for more explicit HIV/AIDS educational programs aimed at youth of color before auditioning for The Real World in 1993. His appearance on The Real World brought his story and his message to MTV's youthful audience and beyond, and when Zamora's health began to deteriorate in late 1994 (after he left the show), it became front page news nationwide, and his death at age 22 provoked a worldwide outpouring of grief. 
PEDRO is partly produced by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (“Quinceanera”) and led by a fantastic cast starring Alex Loynaz as Pedro, Hale Appleman, Jenn Liu, DaJuan Johnson and the amazing Justina Machado.

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