'COVID Diaries NYC'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Mar 17, 2021

At the darkest hour of the pandemic, five young filmmakers in NYC began documenting their experiences dealing with the lockdown. Now those documentaries are presented as part of HBO's "COVID Diaries NYC." We speak to two of the filmmakers, Aracelie Colón and Shane Fleming, about their films, “My COVID Breakdown” and “No Escape From New York.” 

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