An emotional Sharon Stone hosted the amfAR Cinema Againts AIDS Dubai auction held at the Bab Al Shams Hotel during day two of the 4th Dubai International Film Festival on December 10, 2007 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sharon Stone hopes to raise above $1 million dollars for AIDS research at an auction in Dubai to spread awareness about the deadly virus that remains taboo in the Arab world, linked in the public imagination to homosexuality, prostitution or drug abuse. Cinema Against AIDS, an artist-led drive to raise funds for AIDS research, is being held on the sidelines of the fourth Dubai International Film Festival. Also in Dubai to support the drive was Gloria Estafan, and Michelle Yeoh, star of Memoirs of a Geisha.
Stone told Reuters on Monday night as she arrived on the red carpet:
“We’ve been very happy to have been for many years at the Cannes film festival and the Rome festival and now we’re happy to be here.”
“At this point we are already at $800,000, so we certainly know we’re going to walk out with above a million and that’s already good,” said Stone, chair of amfAR global fundraising.
Cinema Against AIDS events have generated over $30 million for research on AIDS since 1993. Since 1985, amfAR has invested $260 million, helping more than 2,000 research teams worldwide.
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