1989philanthropy
Funding an AIDS Documentary
2012
Sandollar funded Common Threads — an Oscar-winning film about the Quilt, when Nashville stayed quiet
Photo creditIn the 1980s, as the Reagan administration's response to AIDS was widely condemned as inadequate, Parton lost friends to the epidemic. Her production company Sandollar backed Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The film won an Academy Award and a Peabody — at a time when most of her country-crossover peers said nothing.
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Parton showed up for the cause when silence was the safer career move in Nashville.