No Sad Songs

{{about|the documentary describing the HIV/AIDS crisis|the Helen Reddy song|No Sad Song}}

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| name = No Sad Songs

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| director = Nik Sheehan

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| starring = Jim Black
Catherine Hunt
Jim St. James
David Sereda

| music = Allen Booth
David Woodhead

| cinematography = Paul Mitchnick

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| studio = AIDS Committee of Toronto
Cell Productions

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| released = {{Film date|1985|9||TIFF}}

| runtime = 63 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

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No Sad Songs is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nik Sheehan and released in 1985."AIDS film defines one man's courage". Toronto Star, October 16, 1985. Billed as the first documentary film about the HIV/AIDS crisis,"Celebrating to the max". The Globe and Mail, September 13, 1985. the film explored the LGBT community's early response to the issue particularly but not exclusively through the personal testimony of Jim Black, a man with AIDS who died several months after the film's release,"Jim Black, 37 described battle against AIDS". Toronto Star, May 10, 1986. and Catherine Hunt, the sister of another person with AIDS.

Several other community figures, including musician David Sereda and HIV/AIDS activist Jim St. James, also appear in smaller capacities in the film.

The film was produced by Cell Productions in conjunction with the AIDS Committee of Toronto."AIDS committee withdraws poster and upsets artist". Toronto Star, June 23, 1985. Through much of the film and in the original promotional poster, Black wore a "Choose Life" T-shirt by artist Katharine Hamnett; however, during the time between the film's production and its release, Christian evangelist Ken Campbell had registered "Choose Life Canada" as the name of an anti-abortion lobby group, and the AIDS Committee faced controversy when it chose to withdraw the posters rather than risk having them misconstrued as an endorsement of Campbell.