The Abominable Crime, the award-winning documentary on homophobia in Jamaica by director Micah Fink, kicks off the Pulitzer Center’s film series at New York’s Paley Center for Media on Tuesday, April 21. Free and open to the public, but RSVP requested—please reserve your seat today. Immediately following the screening, Fink discusses the film with Pulitzer Center Managing Director Nathalie Applewhite, and human rights lawyer Maurice Tomlinson. Also participating will be Andrea Flynn, vice president of the M∙A∙C AIDS Fund, which supports the Pulitzer Center and its coverage of HIV/AIDS, and Suzanne Persard, the LGBT Thematic Specialist with a focus on the Caribbean at Amnesty International. Reception follows screening and panel.

The Rise of the Killer Virus screens on Thursday, April 23, as the second in Pulitzer Center’s film series at New York’s Paley Center for Media. After the screening, director Carl Gierstorfer discusses the film along with Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer and two of the key medical researchers in the documentary who are seeking answers to the origins of HIV: Dr. Dirk Teuwen of Belgium, and Michael Worobey, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. Free and open to the public, but RSVP requested—please reserve your seat today. Reception follows screening and panel. The documentary delves into the origins of HIV and is associated with Gierstorfer’s Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project “HIV’s Origins-And the Lessons for Today.”