I saw Silent Bomb back in the mid-1990's at a Black Filmmakers Foundation screening at Lincoln Center. It was a really good representation of a woman dealing with having the deadly virus and was especially timely as Black women weren't (and still aren't) seen on movies and television as regular victims of HIV despite the stats that have emerged well after Silent Bomb was made. For a neophyte director, actress Kim Fields did a good job at directing her lead LaRita Shelby through the pain of her discovery of having the virus. It's not in the IMDb credits, but Fields' Living Single co-star John Henton was a producer on the film. I would've loved to have seen Fields direct more of her own material, but at least she went on to do television directing. And if more people saw Shelby on this, I feel she would've gotten more movie work.
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