Early one morning in Manhattan, nearly 100 HIV-positive men and women assembled at a downtown restaurant with artist Spencer Tunick to participate in a unique experience: being part of an ensemble nude photograph to be featured on the cover of POZ magazine’s tenth-anniversary issue.

The third in a trilogy of films devoted to Tunick’s unique work, POSITIVELY NAKED chronicles this memorable shoot, putting a human face on an illness that is still often misunderstood. The CINEMAX Reel Life presentation was produced and directed by Arlene Donnelly Nelson and David Nelson, whose credits include the previous two HBO documentaries featuring Tunick.

West Coast readers can still catch the premiere of POSITIVELY NAKED at 7pm PT on Cinemax. The documentary will air throughout 1/29. Get the program schedule here, and watch a preview here.

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