
Director Brent Leung is a brave man. but what makes his explosive documentary, House of Numbers, so undeniably effective, is that he didn't set out to be. As he tells us in the film, he was born in 1980...part of the first AIDS generation, a group who came into their sexuality with the threat of HIV strapped to their genitals like a potentially lit bundle of dynamite. a few years ago, Leung came to learn there has always been a debate over the current HIV/AIDS scientific paradigm. having never known a world without AIDS, this intrigued him, and so his investigative journey began. he was not trying to show courage through radical activism or by asserting some aggressive agenda. he had some questions, and he went around the world asking top HIV/AIDS scientists for the answers.