Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Atom: A Love Affair
Logline: A feature documentary revealing the tragicomic true story of our relationship with that most controversial energy source, nuclear power – as told by those who were there. After 7 turbulent decades, is the atomic love affair coming to an end?
Elevator Pitch:
Nuclear power is one of those divisive, “hot button” topics people can never agree about. But how did we get here? “The Atom: A Love Affair” reveals an oft-forgotten history through frank testimony from major players on both sides of the Atlantic – including politicians, scientists, engineers and campaigners. Their dramatic recollections are brought to...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Atom: A Love Affair
Logline: A feature documentary revealing the tragicomic true story of our relationship with that most controversial energy source, nuclear power – as told by those who were there. After 7 turbulent decades, is the atomic love affair coming to an end?
Elevator Pitch:
Nuclear power is one of those divisive, “hot button” topics people can never agree about. But how did we get here? “The Atom: A Love Affair” reveals an oft-forgotten history through frank testimony from major players on both sides of the Atlantic – including politicians, scientists, engineers and campaigners. Their dramatic recollections are brought to...
- 6/30/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Production house behind Berlinale award-winner Rainbow (Dhanak) and Sundance winner Umrika.
Manish Mundra, producer of award winning films such as Aankho Dekhi, Umrika and Dhanak, has appointed Shiladitya Bora as the CEO of his production house Drishyam Films.
Bora previously ran indie release unit PVR Director’s Rare, during his stint with the PVR Group. He was instrumental in the theatrical release and distribution of more than 84 independent films such as Moonrise Kingdom, Amour, Inside Llewyn Davis and documentary Fire in the Blood.
Selected for the Berlinale Talents programme at the 2015 Berlinale, Bora had recently gone solo with pecialty distribution banner Long Live Cinema, responsible for bringing acclaimed films such as Court and documentaries including In Their Shoes to Indian screens.
The fast-growing production outfit has been behind award-winning festival films including Prashant Nair’s Umrika, which won an audience award at Sundance, and Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rainbow (Dhanak), which won the grand jury prize in Berlin...
Manish Mundra, producer of award winning films such as Aankho Dekhi, Umrika and Dhanak, has appointed Shiladitya Bora as the CEO of his production house Drishyam Films.
Bora previously ran indie release unit PVR Director’s Rare, during his stint with the PVR Group. He was instrumental in the theatrical release and distribution of more than 84 independent films such as Moonrise Kingdom, Amour, Inside Llewyn Davis and documentary Fire in the Blood.
Selected for the Berlinale Talents programme at the 2015 Berlinale, Bora had recently gone solo with pecialty distribution banner Long Live Cinema, responsible for bringing acclaimed films such as Court and documentaries including In Their Shoes to Indian screens.
The fast-growing production outfit has been behind award-winning festival films including Prashant Nair’s Umrika, which won an audience award at Sundance, and Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rainbow (Dhanak), which won the grand jury prize in Berlin...
- 4/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Indian producer-distributor Phantom Films has picked up local award-winning documentary Powerless (Katiyabaaz) and will release the film this weekend on 30 screens.
Directed by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa, the film explores issues such as power supply and bureaucracy through the story of a charismatic electricity thief who supplies his neighbours with illegal power lines. Over the course of a sweltering summer, he takes on local officials including the first female managing director of the Kanpur Electricity Supply Company.
After premiering at the Berlin film festival in 2013, the film travelled to more than 50 festivals and won an Indian National Award for best investigative film. It also won the top award in the India Gold competition at the Mumbai Film Festival last October.
Powerless opens on August 22 on 30 screens across India’s major cities. Several Indian documentaries have recently managed to secure a theatrical release, including The World Before Her, Gulabi Gang, Supermen Of Malegoan...
Directed by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa, the film explores issues such as power supply and bureaucracy through the story of a charismatic electricity thief who supplies his neighbours with illegal power lines. Over the course of a sweltering summer, he takes on local officials including the first female managing director of the Kanpur Electricity Supply Company.
After premiering at the Berlin film festival in 2013, the film travelled to more than 50 festivals and won an Indian National Award for best investigative film. It also won the top award in the India Gold competition at the Mumbai Film Festival last October.
Powerless opens on August 22 on 30 screens across India’s major cities. Several Indian documentaries have recently managed to secure a theatrical release, including The World Before Her, Gulabi Gang, Supermen Of Malegoan...
- 8/12/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The World Before Her, which is slated for a June 6 release in India, has not only won accolades at major film festivals but also had a successful run in theatres in North-America. Being touted as “the most important film of the year” in India, it brings us the story of Miss India pageant contestants on one hand, and participants of Hindu right wing women’s organization, Durga Vahini Camps, on the other.
Shazia Javed does an in-depth interview with the film’s director Nisha Pahuja:
It is still rare for a documentary film to get a theatrical release in India. Was it challenging to bring your film to Indian theatres?
It has taken me well over a year to create enough interest and momentum for a theatrical release, to get it organized, and to ensure that it’s successful. A lot of documentaries that are released in India just come and go.
Shazia Javed does an in-depth interview with the film’s director Nisha Pahuja:
It is still rare for a documentary film to get a theatrical release in India. Was it challenging to bring your film to Indian theatres?
It has taken me well over a year to create enough interest and momentum for a theatrical release, to get it organized, and to ensure that it’s successful. A lot of documentaries that are released in India just come and go.
- 6/5/2014
- by Shazia Javed
- DearCinema.com
A Million Colours finds writer-director Peter Bishai peering into South Africa’s Apartheid yesteryear for his sophomore feature. One might say not just peering, but opening up a past wound to explore the microcosm of the personal within one of history’s great struggles for freedom.
Bishai transforms the past into a vessel for storytelling, opening with a prologue that relays to us that the story we are about to see unfold is the tale of Muntu Ndebele’s (Wandile Molebatsi’s) journey from actor to thief. The theme of storytelling is woven into the fabric of the film as Bishai tailors his drama to the belief that stories are intrinsically weaved into the fabric of the everyday. With this thought to mind perhaps its title refers not to a million shades but rather to the multitude of stories of which a country is threaded together with; a series of...
Bishai transforms the past into a vessel for storytelling, opening with a prologue that relays to us that the story we are about to see unfold is the tale of Muntu Ndebele’s (Wandile Molebatsi’s) journey from actor to thief. The theme of storytelling is woven into the fabric of the film as Bishai tailors his drama to the belief that stories are intrinsically weaved into the fabric of the everyday. With this thought to mind perhaps its title refers not to a million shades but rather to the multitude of stories of which a country is threaded together with; a series of...
- 6/4/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“If it is true that one death is a tragedy, and a million deaths a statistic, this is a story about statistics… the millions of people in poor countries who died needlessly of AIDS while giant pharmaceutical companies blocked access to the low-cost medicine which could have saved their lives.”
This quote, in the voice of William Hurt, coming with the backdrop of a montage of shots from India and several African nations, sets the mood for Dylan Mohan Gray’s hard-hitting, investigative documentary film “Fire in the Blood” that chronicles the fight of activists against the refusal of pharma giants like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to free the Antiretroviral drugs from the patent regime and thus make unpatented, generic, low-cost drugs available to millions of AIDS patients in the developing and least-developed countries.
Narrated by Hollywood actor Hurt, the film chronicles the events in the late 1990s during which activists in Africa,...
This quote, in the voice of William Hurt, coming with the backdrop of a montage of shots from India and several African nations, sets the mood for Dylan Mohan Gray’s hard-hitting, investigative documentary film “Fire in the Blood” that chronicles the fight of activists against the refusal of pharma giants like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to free the Antiretroviral drugs from the patent regime and thus make unpatented, generic, low-cost drugs available to millions of AIDS patients in the developing and least-developed countries.
Narrated by Hollywood actor Hurt, the film chronicles the events in the late 1990s during which activists in Africa,...
- 5/22/2014
- by Utpal Borpujari
- DearCinema.com
Sundance Institute | Mumbai Mantra screenwriting fellows & mentors on an early morning hike by the shores of Lake Pavna
Photo credit: Dani Sanchez-Lopez | Bernat Camps for Mumbai Mantra
I had thought that writing a few paragraphs about my experiences at the Sundance Institute | Mumbai Mantra Screenwriting Lab would be pretty much a piece of cake, but as is so often the case, the task of distilling a flood of thoughts into a more or less concise and coherent narrative feels like an exercise in reduction.
I might begin by mentioning how I submitted my script mainly for the deadline, or more pertinently for the external discipline I hoped the deadline would impose upon me to finish a new draft. That’s certainly not to suggest I didn’t care one way or the other whether I got selected… the lab frankly sounded a bit like paradise, and a couple of friends...
Photo credit: Dani Sanchez-Lopez | Bernat Camps for Mumbai Mantra
I had thought that writing a few paragraphs about my experiences at the Sundance Institute | Mumbai Mantra Screenwriting Lab would be pretty much a piece of cake, but as is so often the case, the task of distilling a flood of thoughts into a more or less concise and coherent narrative feels like an exercise in reduction.
I might begin by mentioning how I submitted my script mainly for the deadline, or more pertinently for the external discipline I hoped the deadline would impose upon me to finish a new draft. That’s certainly not to suggest I didn’t care one way or the other whether I got selected… the lab frankly sounded a bit like paradise, and a couple of friends...
- 4/10/2014
- by Dylan Mohan Gray
- DearCinema.com
A still of Fire in the Blood
What:
Screening of documentary
Fire in the Blood
At Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, organised by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (Msf).
When:
29 March. 7:00 pm
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (Ihc)
Lodhi Road
New Delhi
About the event:
Fire in the Blood
(87 minutes/ English)
Direction: Dylan Mohan Gray
A gripping documentary on the AIDS epidemic in Africa, it is an uncompromising account of the continuing attempts by Western pharmaceutical corporations to increase profits at the cost of millions of lives. The film also chronicles the struggle of South African activist Zackie Achmat and Ugandan doctor Peter Mugyenyi among others for access to cheaper, generic drugs.
Fire in the Blood was screened in Mumbai for over five weeks; the all-time longest commercial theatrical run by a non-fiction film in India.
The screening will be followed...
What:
Screening of documentary
Fire in the Blood
At Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, organised by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (Msf).
When:
29 March. 7:00 pm
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (Ihc)
Lodhi Road
New Delhi
About the event:
Fire in the Blood
(87 minutes/ English)
Direction: Dylan Mohan Gray
A gripping documentary on the AIDS epidemic in Africa, it is an uncompromising account of the continuing attempts by Western pharmaceutical corporations to increase profits at the cost of millions of lives. The film also chronicles the struggle of South African activist Zackie Achmat and Ugandan doctor Peter Mugyenyi among others for access to cheaper, generic drugs.
Fire in the Blood was screened in Mumbai for over five weeks; the all-time longest commercial theatrical run by a non-fiction film in India.
The screening will be followed...
- 3/27/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Philomena is released in time for Mother's Day, while a Mubi tie-in adds to a strong week for documentary
Aesthetically more at home on DVD than it was in cinemas – not that it didn't pull in the crowds – Stephen Frears's Philomena (Fox, 12) hits shelves in perfect time for what will surely be robust Mother's Day sales. Still, unlike most titles reserved for that dread marketing assault (why does everyone in retail assume any mum's favourite colour is baby pink?), there's a reserved dignity to this effective little tearjerker. That owes less to Frears's autopilot direction than a script – co-written by Steve Coogan – that packs surprising layers of moral and political adjustment into what is otherwise too-tidily packaged melodrama. You've doubtless already heard the story of Philomena Lee, parted from her infant son by the Catholic church and seeking reunion decades later; she's played with grace and good humour by Judi Dench,...
Aesthetically more at home on DVD than it was in cinemas – not that it didn't pull in the crowds – Stephen Frears's Philomena (Fox, 12) hits shelves in perfect time for what will surely be robust Mother's Day sales. Still, unlike most titles reserved for that dread marketing assault (why does everyone in retail assume any mum's favourite colour is baby pink?), there's a reserved dignity to this effective little tearjerker. That owes less to Frears's autopilot direction than a script – co-written by Steve Coogan – that packs surprising layers of moral and political adjustment into what is otherwise too-tidily packaged melodrama. You've doubtless already heard the story of Philomena Lee, parted from her infant son by the Catholic church and seeking reunion decades later; she's played with grace and good humour by Judi Dench,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★★Crusading documentaries have now become a common sub-genre: from Michael Moore's slick polemics and eco-worrier Al Gore's persuasive An Inconvenient Truth (2006) to the animal rights appeals of both The Cove (2009) and Blackfish (2013). As such, these high profile offerings present the film critic with something of a dilemma. How does one judge the merits of a film when its argument is so compelling in and of itself? How do you coolly extricate the merit of the film from the passionate good the cause arouses? Fortunately, Dylan Mohan Gray's brilliantly constructed Fire in the Blood (2013) is a doc which does the righteousness of its cause more than justice.
- 3/24/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
To mark the release of Fire in the Blood on 24th March, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on DVD.
Fire In The Blood is a critically-acclaimed documentary of medicine, monopoly and malice that tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996. The film investigates how this caused over ten million unnecessary deaths and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Fire In The Blood was shot on four continents and tells its remarkable story through the eyes of AIDS patients, front-line clinicians, radical health professionals, pharmaceutical company executives and global figures including Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz. It is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Crime of the Century’ and save millions of lives in the process.
Fire In The Blood is a critically-acclaimed documentary of medicine, monopoly and malice that tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996. The film investigates how this caused over ten million unnecessary deaths and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Fire In The Blood was shot on four continents and tells its remarkable story through the eyes of AIDS patients, front-line clinicians, radical health professionals, pharmaceutical company executives and global figures including Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz. It is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Crime of the Century’ and save millions of lives in the process.
- 3/10/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Film: "Dallas Buyers Club"; Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn, Michael O'Neill, Dallas Roberts, Griffin Dunne, Kevin Rankin, Donna Duplantier and Deneen Tyler; Director: Jean-Marc Vallee; Rating: ***1/2
Unlike Director Dylan Mohan Gray's hard-hitting documentary, "Fire in the Blood", which was released in the Indian theaters last October, "Dallas Buyers Club" is a fascinating dramatization of the same subject.
It depicts how the medical profession, government and pharmaceutical giants in the Us dragged their heels in promoting the expensive Azt and ignoring its toxic.
Unlike Director Dylan Mohan Gray's hard-hitting documentary, "Fire in the Blood", which was released in the Indian theaters last October, "Dallas Buyers Club" is a fascinating dramatization of the same subject.
It depicts how the medical profession, government and pharmaceutical giants in the Us dragged their heels in promoting the expensive Azt and ignoring its toxic.
- 3/1/2014
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
India and Canada have signed a co-production agreement, wrapping up talks that have been on-going since 2010.
The agreement was signed in New Delhi by India’s Information & Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka, and Canada’s High Commissioner to India, Stuart Beck, during the visit of Canada’s Governor General David Johnston to India.
Co-productions made under the agreement will have access to Canadian subsidies and tax breaks and also be eligible for India’s National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). India also has some government assistance available to filmmakers.
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting also said that the treaty could lead to more Canadian films shooting in India. “The agreement will also lead to the transparent funding of film production and will boost export of Indian films into the Canadian market,” the I&B Ministry said in a statement.
India already has co-production treaties with the UK...
The agreement was signed in New Delhi by India’s Information & Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka, and Canada’s High Commissioner to India, Stuart Beck, during the visit of Canada’s Governor General David Johnston to India.
Co-productions made under the agreement will have access to Canadian subsidies and tax breaks and also be eligible for India’s National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). India also has some government assistance available to filmmakers.
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting also said that the treaty could lead to more Canadian films shooting in India. “The agreement will also lead to the transparent funding of film production and will boost export of Indian films into the Canadian market,” the I&B Ministry said in a statement.
India already has co-production treaties with the UK...
- 2/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
India and Canada have signed a co-production agreement, wrapping up talks that have been on-going since 2010.
The agreement was signed in New Delhi by India’s Information & Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka, and Canada’s High Commissioner to India, Stuart Beck, during the visit of Canada’s Governor General David Johnston to India.
Co-productions made under the agreement will have access to Canadian subsidies and tax breaks and also be eligible for India’s National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). India also has some government assistance available to filmmakers.
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting also said that the treaty could lead to more Canadian films shooting in India. “The agreement will also lead to the transparent funding of film production and will boost export of Indian films into the Canadian market,” the I&B Ministry said in a statement.
India already has co-production treaties with the UK...
The agreement was signed in New Delhi by India’s Information & Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka, and Canada’s High Commissioner to India, Stuart Beck, during the visit of Canada’s Governor General David Johnston to India.
Co-productions made under the agreement will have access to Canadian subsidies and tax breaks and also be eligible for India’s National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). India also has some government assistance available to filmmakers.
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting also said that the treaty could lead to more Canadian films shooting in India. “The agreement will also lead to the transparent funding of film production and will boost export of Indian films into the Canadian market,” the I&B Ministry said in a statement.
India already has co-production treaties with the UK...
- 2/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Kaushik Ganguly’s Apur Panchali takes off on Pather Panchali and is about the child actor who played Apu in the film – Subir Banerjee – and what happened to him because he never made another film after Ray’s masterpiece.
Cinema in India has now split up into several pan-Indian categories. Apart from the mainstream Hindi film we have the ‘indie’ cinema represented by films like The Lunchbox and Ship of Theseus as well as the documentary (Fire in the Blood), which has become commercially viable, as it was not. Apart from these categories, there is the regional art film which, unlike its popular counterpart, is pan-Indian rather than local – because it is aimed at audiences at film festivals and other pan-Indian cultural gatherings, and cannot be imagined without subtitles in English. The pan-Indian art film is gaining ground across India and well-known film critics were also recommending the Indian Panorama...
Cinema in India has now split up into several pan-Indian categories. Apart from the mainstream Hindi film we have the ‘indie’ cinema represented by films like The Lunchbox and Ship of Theseus as well as the documentary (Fire in the Blood), which has become commercially viable, as it was not. Apart from these categories, there is the regional art film which, unlike its popular counterpart, is pan-Indian rather than local – because it is aimed at audiences at film festivals and other pan-Indian cultural gatherings, and cannot be imagined without subtitles in English. The pan-Indian art film is gaining ground across India and well-known film critics were also recommending the Indian Panorama...
- 2/13/2014
- by MK Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
Gitanjai Rao’s “True Love Story” won Golden Conch for Best Animation Film at Miff 2014
Nishtha Jain’s documentary ‘Gulabi Gang’, won her the Best Director Award in the International Competition section of Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff). The film is releasing on February 21 under PVR Director’s Rare banner.
The seven day festival dedicated to documentary, Shorts and Animation films concluded in Mumbai today.
‘Gulabi Gang’ tells the story of Sampat Pal and her group of women vigilantes and activists from Bundelkhand, who fight for womens’ rights and their empowerment. Armed with a lathi (stick) the Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up unless they stop abusing their wives. The film has won several other award.
Read Nishtha Jain’S Interview Here
Golden Conch Best Animation Film award to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao
The Golden Conch Best Animation Film award went to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao.
Nishtha Jain’s documentary ‘Gulabi Gang’, won her the Best Director Award in the International Competition section of Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff). The film is releasing on February 21 under PVR Director’s Rare banner.
The seven day festival dedicated to documentary, Shorts and Animation films concluded in Mumbai today.
‘Gulabi Gang’ tells the story of Sampat Pal and her group of women vigilantes and activists from Bundelkhand, who fight for womens’ rights and their empowerment. Armed with a lathi (stick) the Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up unless they stop abusing their wives. The film has won several other award.
Read Nishtha Jain’S Interview Here
Golden Conch Best Animation Film award to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao
The Golden Conch Best Animation Film award went to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao.
- 2/9/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff) 2014 will be hosting a five-day programme ‘Miff Producer’s forum’ from February 4, on the sidelines of the festival, to facilitate an interaction of filmmakers and producers with funders, festival representatives, experts and lawyers on how to strategize, pitch, seek funding and market their projects.
The speakers includes Pawan Kumar, Nilotpal Majumdar, Rashmi Lamba, Dylan Mohan Gray, Anil Wanvari, Supriyo Sen, Kaushik Moitra, Shiladitya Bora, Miriam Joseph, Rajjat Barjatya, Angela Haardt, Fujioka Asako, Jurij Meden, Rada Sesic and Mark Achbar.
Lucia filmmaker Pawan Kumar will conduct a session on crowdfunding and distribution on February 6.
Dylan Mohan Gray, director of Fire in the Blood will talk about his journey with the film on February 7. In another session the same day, media lawyer Kaushik Moitra will look at the legal challenges of documentary filmmaking.
Shiladitya Bora of PVR Director’s Rare will conduct a session on theatrical...
The speakers includes Pawan Kumar, Nilotpal Majumdar, Rashmi Lamba, Dylan Mohan Gray, Anil Wanvari, Supriyo Sen, Kaushik Moitra, Shiladitya Bora, Miriam Joseph, Rajjat Barjatya, Angela Haardt, Fujioka Asako, Jurij Meden, Rada Sesic and Mark Achbar.
Lucia filmmaker Pawan Kumar will conduct a session on crowdfunding and distribution on February 6.
Dylan Mohan Gray, director of Fire in the Blood will talk about his journey with the film on February 7. In another session the same day, media lawyer Kaushik Moitra will look at the legal challenges of documentary filmmaking.
Shiladitya Bora of PVR Director’s Rare will conduct a session on theatrical...
- 2/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
1. What: Screening of Msf (Un)Limited
Free and Open to the Public
Who: Q&A with Martin Sloot, Msf’s General Director
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (Msf)
Nobel Peace Prize recipient
When: Thursday, January 30 – 5.30pm
Where: Alliance Française de Trivandrum Sudharsana,
Forest Office Lane, Vazhuthacaud
Film Description:
Msf (Un)Limited is a 52-minute film that captures intense emotional encounters that test 1999 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Doctors Without Borders principles. Moving accounts of atrocities and humanitarian crises since the founding of Msf in 1971 are told using original footage with commentary by Msf staff. Staffs are shown wrestling with their consciences, struggling with emotional involvement and receiving threats to their personal security.
Meet Martin Sloot at a Q&A after the screening. Mr Sloot has worked for Msf since 2001 in Afghanistan, Burundi, Columbia and the Ivory Coast. Presently, he is General Director of Msf office in India.
2. What: Screening of...
Free and Open to the Public
Who: Q&A with Martin Sloot, Msf’s General Director
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (Msf)
Nobel Peace Prize recipient
When: Thursday, January 30 – 5.30pm
Where: Alliance Française de Trivandrum Sudharsana,
Forest Office Lane, Vazhuthacaud
Film Description:
Msf (Un)Limited is a 52-minute film that captures intense emotional encounters that test 1999 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Doctors Without Borders principles. Moving accounts of atrocities and humanitarian crises since the founding of Msf in 1971 are told using original footage with commentary by Msf staff. Staffs are shown wrestling with their consciences, struggling with emotional involvement and receiving threats to their personal security.
Meet Martin Sloot at a Q&A after the screening. Mr Sloot has worked for Msf since 2001 in Afghanistan, Burundi, Columbia and the Ivory Coast. Presently, he is General Director of Msf office in India.
2. What: Screening of...
- 1/29/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
2013 proved to be yet another exciting year for Indian documentaries: they screened at numerous international film festivals and took home awards. In a small but significant step, a few of them even found their way into theatres in India. Though the domestic funding and distribution scenario still remains gloomy, there’s much to rejoice in the international acclaim that these documentaries have found in the last year.
We have compiled a list of the 10 most successful documentaries of 2013, taking into account factors such as film festivals, awards, popularity, reviews and distribution.
Special Mention for Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man that has recently been selected for its fiftieth festival, Saurav Sarangi’s Char..The No Man’s Island and Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang for still being hot on the festival circuit and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married for its theatrical release in August. All...
We have compiled a list of the 10 most successful documentaries of 2013, taking into account factors such as film festivals, awards, popularity, reviews and distribution.
Special Mention for Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man that has recently been selected for its fiftieth festival, Saurav Sarangi’s Char..The No Man’s Island and Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang for still being hot on the festival circuit and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married for its theatrical release in August. All...
- 1/3/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
The 13th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (Miff) has unveiled its lineup for International and Indian competition sections.
The biennial festival will be held from February 3-9, 2014 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa) in Mumbai. The festival received 600 entries from India and 205 international entries out of which films from 34 countries have been selected.
Ian McDonald’s Algorithms, Kim Longinotto’s Salma, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Dylan Mohan Gray’s Fire in the Blood, Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang and Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s I Am Micro are some of the prominent documentaries that will compete in International Competition.
For complete lineup of International Competition, click here
Tamaash (The Puppet) by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh, Golden Mango by Govinda Raju, Have You Seen the Arana? by Sunanda Bhat, Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Shepherds of Paradise...
The biennial festival will be held from February 3-9, 2014 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa) in Mumbai. The festival received 600 entries from India and 205 international entries out of which films from 34 countries have been selected.
Ian McDonald’s Algorithms, Kim Longinotto’s Salma, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Dylan Mohan Gray’s Fire in the Blood, Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang and Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s I Am Micro are some of the prominent documentaries that will compete in International Competition.
For complete lineup of International Competition, click here
Tamaash (The Puppet) by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh, Golden Mango by Govinda Raju, Have You Seen the Arana? by Sunanda Bhat, Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Shepherds of Paradise...
- 1/1/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A hard hitting documentary tells the story of how big pharma blocked millions of world's poorest from accessing low-cost HIV/Aids drugs
This dark, enlightening documentary puts the "crime of the century" on trial. Fire in the Blood is the urgent effort of director Dylan Gray to record the story of how western drugs companies blocked access to low-cost HIV/Aids treatment for the world's poorest, condemning millions to agonising, unnecessary deaths.
In the early 2000s, faced with queues of people destined to die of a treatable disease, doctors in sub-Saharan Africa were forced to play God; deciding who would be granted life saving drugs from limited stocks. The central tragedy of the film is that its abhorrent content was completely avoidable. The choice of the Us government, under the duress of 'big pharma', to stubbornly defend patents on antiretroviral drugs, indirectly led to the deaths of some 10 million people.
This dark, enlightening documentary puts the "crime of the century" on trial. Fire in the Blood is the urgent effort of director Dylan Gray to record the story of how western drugs companies blocked access to low-cost HIV/Aids treatment for the world's poorest, condemning millions to agonising, unnecessary deaths.
In the early 2000s, faced with queues of people destined to die of a treatable disease, doctors in sub-Saharan Africa were forced to play God; deciding who would be granted life saving drugs from limited stocks. The central tragedy of the film is that its abhorrent content was completely avoidable. The choice of the Us government, under the duress of 'big pharma', to stubbornly defend patents on antiretroviral drugs, indirectly led to the deaths of some 10 million people.
- 12/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated Indian film Fire in the Blood has been held over for a fourth week at PVR Phoenix in Mumbai, thus becoming the first-ever nonfiction film to achieve a four-week commercial theatrical run in India.
“This is a dream come true and a real testament to the fact that audiences in India are hungering for new and different types of films,” said producer-director Dylan Mohan Gray. “The word of mouth has been just incredible, and definitely the key factor in sustaining interest in Fire in the Blood ”, he added. “I get e-mails, especially from students, every single day telling me how blown away they were by the movie and how they’ve prodded their friends to rush to go see it while it’s still running.”
Fire in the Blood tells the story of a unique and eclectic group of people who came together from India and...
“This is a dream come true and a real testament to the fact that audiences in India are hungering for new and different types of films,” said producer-director Dylan Mohan Gray. “The word of mouth has been just incredible, and definitely the key factor in sustaining interest in Fire in the Blood ”, he added. “I get e-mails, especially from students, every single day telling me how blown away they were by the movie and how they’ve prodded their friends to rush to go see it while it’s still running.”
Fire in the Blood tells the story of a unique and eclectic group of people who came together from India and...
- 11/2/2013
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
Sundance nominated Indian documentary ‘Fire In The Blood’ now in its 3rd successful week at theatres
Due to overwhelming public response and strong critical acclaim, Sundance nominated, award-winning Indian film ‘Fire in the Blood’, directed by Dylan Mohan Gray is continuing for a third successful week at PVR Phoenix in Mumbai. The film is also opening in additional cities like Mangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai this week.
Narrated by Oscar winner and four-time nominee William Hurt, ‘Fire in the Blood’ tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs in the years after 1996, directly resulting in no less than 10 million avoidable deaths in Africa and various other parts of the global south. The movie portrays the monumental change brought about by the small, unlikely group of people who decided to fight back against this deeply unjust blockade.
Shiladitya Bora of PVR Director’s Rare, which is releasing the film, said “We are absolutely delighted with the audience response to...
Narrated by Oscar winner and four-time nominee William Hurt, ‘Fire in the Blood’ tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs in the years after 1996, directly resulting in no less than 10 million avoidable deaths in Africa and various other parts of the global south. The movie portrays the monumental change brought about by the small, unlikely group of people who decided to fight back against this deeply unjust blockade.
Shiladitya Bora of PVR Director’s Rare, which is releasing the film, said “We are absolutely delighted with the audience response to...
- 10/26/2013
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Mumbai, Oct 24: Thanks to an overwhelming response Indian documentary "Fire In The Blood" is enjoying a successful run in Mumbai.
Now the plans are to screen the documentary in cities like Mangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai this week.
The film is being currently screened as a part of the "PVR Director's Rare", an alternative programming initiative of PVR Cinemas to support the theatrical release of critically acclaimed, independent films.
"Bringing 'Fire In The Blood' home to India has been an exhilarating experience. I am confident that it will continue for another week and become the first ever Indian documentary to.
Now the plans are to screen the documentary in cities like Mangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai this week.
The film is being currently screened as a part of the "PVR Director's Rare", an alternative programming initiative of PVR Cinemas to support the theatrical release of critically acclaimed, independent films.
"Bringing 'Fire In The Blood' home to India has been an exhilarating experience. I am confident that it will continue for another week and become the first ever Indian documentary to.
- 10/24/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
O ne of the emptiest sentiments to be widely echoed in every corner of the liberal world is that every human life is equally valuable. The country from where this is heard most persistently is the United States, a country which often uses its concern for human life as political justification for military intervention. Hollywood is virtually the liberal heart of the Us but any scrutiny of Hollywood’s humanistic discourses reveals the asymmetry in American humanism. In a war film like Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001) Somalians die in uncounted numbers while each American death is separately wept over. Since this is a review of a film about illness and the pharmaceutical industry I should perhaps cite a relevant Hollywood film here as well. In Wolfgang Petersen’s Outbreak (1995) a terrible disease which originates in Africa spreads to the Us and the film ends happily when the Us is rid of it.
- 10/20/2013
- by MK Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
After making waves in numerous countries, Fire in the Blood screens today across India. Directed by Dylan Mohan Gray, the film has won critical acclaim worldwide.
Rohit Khilnani from India Today wrote, “Dylan Mohan Gray’s documentary Fire in the Blood is “a shocking expose… A story that needed to be told to the world — **** (4 stars)”
According to noted film critic Rajeev Masand, the documentary is, “A powerful, urgent film. Don’t miss Fire in the Blood. It tells you how You can save lives”
Sarit Ray from Hindustan Times says Fire in the Blood is “a sharp wake-up call… as riveting as it is engaging… the perfect vehicle for a powerful message that has been lost” and adds that “an Indian film might make it to the biggest awards stage… in a pill if not a lunchbox — **** (4 stars)”
Zoe Ball from BBC Radio calls it “Brilliant… A real life David and Goliath story.
Rohit Khilnani from India Today wrote, “Dylan Mohan Gray’s documentary Fire in the Blood is “a shocking expose… A story that needed to be told to the world — **** (4 stars)”
According to noted film critic Rajeev Masand, the documentary is, “A powerful, urgent film. Don’t miss Fire in the Blood. It tells you how You can save lives”
Sarit Ray from Hindustan Times says Fire in the Blood is “a sharp wake-up call… as riveting as it is engaging… the perfect vehicle for a powerful message that has been lost” and adds that “an Indian film might make it to the biggest awards stage… in a pill if not a lunchbox — **** (4 stars)”
Zoe Ball from BBC Radio calls it “Brilliant… A real life David and Goliath story.
- 10/14/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Film: "Fire In The Blood" (Documentary); Maker: Dylan Mohan Gray; Rating: ****
Normally we tend to overlook the documentary in the range of our cinematic entertainment. It would be a mistake, a big mistake, to miss "Fire In The Blood" because we would rather have a good time watching "Grand Masti" or "Chennai Express" at a theatre near us.
"Fire In The Blood" is not entertainment. It's much more. It's not a feature film. But the issue it deals with - how the criminal racket allegedly enforced by large pharmaceutical companies to block life saving drugs from third world countries, mainly Africa, touches all our lives.
We could be one of the victims, and we don't even know it!
Indeed director Dylan Mohan.
Normally we tend to overlook the documentary in the range of our cinematic entertainment. It would be a mistake, a big mistake, to miss "Fire In The Blood" because we would rather have a good time watching "Grand Masti" or "Chennai Express" at a theatre near us.
"Fire In The Blood" is not entertainment. It's much more. It's not a feature film. But the issue it deals with - how the criminal racket allegedly enforced by large pharmaceutical companies to block life saving drugs from third world countries, mainly Africa, touches all our lives.
We could be one of the victims, and we don't even know it!
Indeed director Dylan Mohan.
- 10/12/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
The Indian trailer of Dylan Mohan Gray’s Fire in the Blood was released on October 5th. The documentary has won multiple awards around the world (including the Political Film Prize in Hamburg on the same day the trailer was released) and has created ripples in many countries. The trailer gives the audience a short glimpse into the toxic business of pharmaceuticals and how it affects the lives of ordinary citizens in countries both rich and poor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhQZkiXMAQo
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- 10/9/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
At a gala award ceremony in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday night (October 5th), Indian film Fire in the Blood, directed by Dylan Mohan Gray won the first-ever Prize for Political Film at the Filmfest Hamburg. Twelve films from around the world were in the running for the prestigious award.
Internationally-acclaimed Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of his friend Dylan Mohan Gray, reading remarks in German prepared by Gray just before the event.
The jury’s citation called the film, which details how Western pharmaceutical companies condemned millions to death by blocking access to lower-cost medicine, “superbly researched, making engagingly clear the omnipotence of big business interests… A film that challenges us to fight back. ”
In his remarks read by Akin, Gray noted “I hope that everyone in the audience this evening who has not yet had the chance to see Fire in the Blood...
Internationally-acclaimed Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of his friend Dylan Mohan Gray, reading remarks in German prepared by Gray just before the event.
The jury’s citation called the film, which details how Western pharmaceutical companies condemned millions to death by blocking access to lower-cost medicine, “superbly researched, making engagingly clear the omnipotence of big business interests… A film that challenges us to fight back. ”
In his remarks read by Akin, Gray noted “I hope that everyone in the audience this evening who has not yet had the chance to see Fire in the Blood...
- 10/8/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Fire in the Blood, directed by Dylan Mohan Gray, has won the Best Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, an award instituted at the Filmfest Hamburg for the first time this year. The festival was held from September 26-October 5 in Germany.
Twelve films aspiring to provide a political message competed for the prize money of 5,000 Euros.
Famous Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of Dylan Mohan Gray.
The films nominated in this category were: 74 -The Reconstitution of a Struggle (Lebanon), Against the Grain (USA, Pakistan), The Edge of the World (France), Fire in the Blood (India), The Human Scale (Denmark), Imbabazi – The Pardon (Rwanda), Lampedusa auf St. Pauli (Germany), Looking for North Koreans (France), Manuscripts don’t burn (Iran), Once I Entered Garden (Switzerland, France, Israel), They are the Dogs (Morocco) and Vers Madrid (France, Spain).
Fire in the Blood tells the story of...
Twelve films aspiring to provide a political message competed for the prize money of 5,000 Euros.
Famous Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of Dylan Mohan Gray.
The films nominated in this category were: 74 -The Reconstitution of a Struggle (Lebanon), Against the Grain (USA, Pakistan), The Edge of the World (France), Fire in the Blood (India), The Human Scale (Denmark), Imbabazi – The Pardon (Rwanda), Lampedusa auf St. Pauli (Germany), Looking for North Koreans (France), Manuscripts don’t burn (Iran), Once I Entered Garden (Switzerland, France, Israel), They are the Dogs (Morocco) and Vers Madrid (France, Spain).
Fire in the Blood tells the story of...
- 10/7/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
After winning acclaim the world over, an extraordinary Indian film is now coming home. Fire in the Blood, which earlier this year became the first Indian film ever to be selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, the world’s most prestigious and competitive festival for independent films, is releasing in cities around the country on October 11. The film has already released theatrically in the UK, Ireland and the Us to rave reviews.
Directed by Punjabi-Irish filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray, Fire in the Blood is an intricate tale of ‘medicine, monopoly and malice’ and tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
One of the...
Directed by Punjabi-Irish filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray, Fire in the Blood is an intricate tale of ‘medicine, monopoly and malice’ and tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
One of the...
- 9/22/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Take One Action | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | Into Unknown Territory: The Cinema Of Roland Klick | Raindance Film Festival
Take One Action, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Think globally and watch locally with this respected social action festival. There are big topics here, addressed through drama and documentary and invariably accompanied by panel discussions. A new "Sisters" strand puts women's stories to the fore but the opener, Fire In The Blood, takes a detailed look at Big Pharma and its control over medical drugs. Elsewhere, nuclear orthodoxy is challenged in Pandora's Promise, and other topics up for inspection include Russian politics, HIV and urbanisation.
Edinburgh Filmhouse & Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 12 Oct
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
The tourist-friendly Northumberland border town has found an ingenious way of attracting visitors: by turning the whole town into a "living cinema". New video artworks and site-specific installations have been commissioned for some of Berwick-upon-Tweed's celebrated landmarks.
Take One Action, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Think globally and watch locally with this respected social action festival. There are big topics here, addressed through drama and documentary and invariably accompanied by panel discussions. A new "Sisters" strand puts women's stories to the fore but the opener, Fire In The Blood, takes a detailed look at Big Pharma and its control over medical drugs. Elsewhere, nuclear orthodoxy is challenged in Pandora's Promise, and other topics up for inspection include Russian politics, HIV and urbanisation.
Edinburgh Filmhouse & Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 12 Oct
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
The tourist-friendly Northumberland border town has found an ingenious way of attracting visitors: by turning the whole town into a "living cinema". New video artworks and site-specific installations have been commissioned for some of Berwick-upon-Tweed's celebrated landmarks.
- 9/21/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Barfi!, Fire in the Blood, Kai Po Che, Lootera, Monsoon Shootout and Yeh Jawaani Hain Deewani have been selected to screen at the 26th edition of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love and Anarchy.
The festival will be held from September 19 – 29, 2013 in Helsinki, Finland.
Fire in the Blood will be a part of “Heart of Africa” section while the rest of the films will screen in “Asian Cut” section.
Dylan Mohan Gray’s documentary Fire in the Blood has been a festival favorite of the year. An 84-minute multilingual documentary in English, Hindi, Manipuri and Xhosa (spoken in South Africa), the film was screened in Sundance, Sheffield Doc Fest in the UK, Washington DC International Film Festival and is selected for the Zurich International Film Festival to be held next month. The film will have a theatrical release in India on october 11, 2013.
Read: Interview with Dylan Mohan Gray
Anurag Basu’s Barfi!
The festival will be held from September 19 – 29, 2013 in Helsinki, Finland.
Fire in the Blood will be a part of “Heart of Africa” section while the rest of the films will screen in “Asian Cut” section.
Dylan Mohan Gray’s documentary Fire in the Blood has been a festival favorite of the year. An 84-minute multilingual documentary in English, Hindi, Manipuri and Xhosa (spoken in South Africa), the film was screened in Sundance, Sheffield Doc Fest in the UK, Washington DC International Film Festival and is selected for the Zurich International Film Festival to be held next month. The film will have a theatrical release in India on october 11, 2013.
Read: Interview with Dylan Mohan Gray
Anurag Basu’s Barfi!
- 9/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Zurich Film Festival (Zff), in cooperation with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (Msf), to screen six films including the new feature from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and the world premiere of Leaving Greece.
Six films have been selection for Zff’s Border Lines sidebar dealing with conflict situations and people in need, compiled in coopration with charity parter and international medical and humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières.
Receiving its world premiere in this section will be Anna Brass’ German documentary Leaving Greece, which uses Greece as a basis to explore Europe’s refugee policy.
The following films will be shown at the Zff (all are documentaries except Closed Curtain):
Fire In The Blood (India) Dylan Mohan Gray
Panel discussion with the filmmaker and experts from Msf
“The only reason we are dying is because we are poor”, says an AIDS activist in South Africa as the large pharmaceutical companies take legal action against...
Six films have been selection for Zff’s Border Lines sidebar dealing with conflict situations and people in need, compiled in coopration with charity parter and international medical and humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières.
Receiving its world premiere in this section will be Anna Brass’ German documentary Leaving Greece, which uses Greece as a basis to explore Europe’s refugee policy.
The following films will be shown at the Zff (all are documentaries except Closed Curtain):
Fire In The Blood (India) Dylan Mohan Gray
Panel discussion with the filmmaker and experts from Msf
“The only reason we are dying is because we are poor”, says an AIDS activist in South Africa as the large pharmaceutical companies take legal action against...
- 9/16/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Irrfan Khan in Lunchbox
The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra and documentary Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray will be screened at the 9th Zurich Film Festival to be held from September 26-October 6, 2013.
The Lunchbox will have a Gala Premiere at the festival. Featuring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the film revolves around a middle class housewife Ila who is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage and Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement.
The film will release in Indian theatres on September 20, 2013.
Fire in the Blood will be screened in “Border Lines” section that presents films dealing with border situations such as territorial, social and individual conflicts. The film tells the story of how in the late 1990s and early 2000s, western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost antiretroviral drugs from reaching AIDS stricken Africa–causing 10 million or more unnecessary...
The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra and documentary Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray will be screened at the 9th Zurich Film Festival to be held from September 26-October 6, 2013.
The Lunchbox will have a Gala Premiere at the festival. Featuring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the film revolves around a middle class housewife Ila who is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage and Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement.
The film will release in Indian theatres on September 20, 2013.
Fire in the Blood will be screened in “Border Lines” section that presents films dealing with border situations such as territorial, social and individual conflicts. The film tells the story of how in the late 1990s and early 2000s, western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost antiretroviral drugs from reaching AIDS stricken Africa–causing 10 million or more unnecessary...
- 9/13/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
New Release
Instructions Not Included
PG-13, 1 Hr., 55 Mins.
Eugenio Derbez stars as a womanizer forced to (mostly) change his ways – and become a Hollywood stuntman — after an ex-lover dumps their baby daughter on him in this preposterous but still pretty enjoyable comedy. References to Derbez’s Jack and Jill costar Adam Sandler (whose film Big Daddy this resembles) are included. B —Clark Collis
New Release
Blue Caprice
R, 1 Hr., 33 Mins.
Make no mistake: Alexandre Moors’ hauntingly intimate portrait of the 2002 Beltway snipers, which largely manages to avoid the pitfalls of speculation and exploitation, is a genuine horror movie. Isaiah Washington...
Instructions Not Included
PG-13, 1 Hr., 55 Mins.
Eugenio Derbez stars as a womanizer forced to (mostly) change his ways – and become a Hollywood stuntman — after an ex-lover dumps their baby daughter on him in this preposterous but still pretty enjoyable comedy. References to Derbez’s Jack and Jill costar Adam Sandler (whose film Big Daddy this resembles) are included. B —Clark Collis
New Release
Blue Caprice
R, 1 Hr., 33 Mins.
Make no mistake: Alexandre Moors’ hauntingly intimate portrait of the 2002 Beltway snipers, which largely manages to avoid the pitfalls of speculation and exploitation, is a genuine horror movie. Isaiah Washington...
- 9/11/2013
- by Deven Persaud
- EW - Inside Movies
While most of the Us film industry was busy north of the border at the Toronto Film Festival, the first post-summer season weekend came and went at the specialty box office. It was a very crowded house of indie newcomers, with really only one film -- The Weinstein Company doc "Salinger" -- finding respectable numbers. "Salinger" -- directed by Shane Salerno and offering unparalleled access to the world of reclusive author J.D. Salinger -- grossed $90,969 from just 4 theaters for a very promising $22,742 average, among the year's best per-theater-averages for docs. The Weinsteins wasted no time after premiering it in Telluride on Labor Day weekend, and so far that tactic is working out for them. We'll see how things go when the film expands to 60 markets next week. A whopping 7 other films reported debut weekend numbers, including "Adore" (Exclusive Media), "Fire In The Blood" (International Film Circuit), "Good Ol' Freda" (Magnolia), "He'll Baby" (Millennium), "Populaire" (The.
- 9/8/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
It made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, competing in the World Cinema Documentary category, and it now has an official USA theatrical release date, courtesy of International Film Circuit (the distributor of other topical, socially-relevant docs like The Waiting Room, Emmy-winner Where Soldiers Come From, Peabody-winner My Perestroika, The Devil Came on Horseback and the Academy Award-nominated film Darwin's Nightmare). The feature documentary is titled Fire In The Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray, and is described as an intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice," which follows an improbable...
- 9/6/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Fear, greed, and cowardice have a way of sullying things like medical breakthroughs. In the mid-1990s, the antiviral drugs that checked the AIDS crisis separated the meaning of "HIV positive" from full-blown AIDS because, for the first time, the existence of the virus in the blood was not a death sentence. That was a triumph of an unprecedented amount of focused research, largely paid for by government agencies like the National Institutes of Health. But it felt like a miracle.
In Fire in the Blood, his documentary on the pharmaceutical keep-away that perpetuated the AIDS emergency in Africa and elsewhere, director Dylan Mohan Gray describes how protective patent laws guaranteed not only profits for drug companies but also the deaths of more than 10 million AIDS suffer...
In Fire in the Blood, his documentary on the pharmaceutical keep-away that perpetuated the AIDS emergency in Africa and elsewhere, director Dylan Mohan Gray describes how protective patent laws guaranteed not only profits for drug companies but also the deaths of more than 10 million AIDS suffer...
- 9/4/2013
- Village Voice
It made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, competing in the World Cinema Documentary category, and it now has an official USA theatrical release date, courtesy of International Film Circuit (the distributor of other topical, socially-relevant docs like The Waiting Room, Emmy-winner Where Soldiers Come From, Peabody-winner My Perestroika, The Devil Came on Horseback and the Academy Award-nominated film Darwin's Nightmare). The feature documentary is titled Fire In The Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray, and is described as an intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice," which follows an improbable...
- 9/3/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
An intricate tale of ‘medicine, monopoly and malice’, Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Crime of the Century’ and save million of lives in the process.
As the film makes clear, however, this story is by no means over. With dramatic past victories having given way to serious setbacks engineered far from public view, the real fight for access to life-saving medicine is almost certainly just beginning.
Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Crime of the Century’ and save million of lives in the process.
As the film makes clear, however, this story is by no means over. With dramatic past victories having given way to serious setbacks engineered far from public view, the real fight for access to life-saving medicine is almost certainly just beginning.
- 8/28/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
The 10th edition of Jeevika: Asian Livelihood Documentary Festival to be held in New Delhi from August 29-September 1 has unveiled its lineup. The festival will take place at the India Habitat Centre.
The festival will open with No Problem! (Six months with the barefoot Grandmamas) by Yasmin Kidwai. The film revolves around numerous illiterate rural women from all over the world, particularly Africa, who are being trained as solar engineers in the village of Tilonia, Rajasthan through the Rural Solar Electrification Project run by the Barefoot College. It won the Best Documentary award at Zanzibar International Film Festival.
The other documentaries to be screened at the festival are:
Aarohan by Manish Pruthi, Pallavi Kumar, Pawan Lodhi
Green School: Footprints in the future by Giovanni Mo
A Common Story by Ananda Siddhartha,Epti Pattnaik,Piyus Garud,Pratik Bhakta
Their Last Weapon by Nirupama Singh
The Road Back Home by Shobhit Jain...
The festival will open with No Problem! (Six months with the barefoot Grandmamas) by Yasmin Kidwai. The film revolves around numerous illiterate rural women from all over the world, particularly Africa, who are being trained as solar engineers in the village of Tilonia, Rajasthan through the Rural Solar Electrification Project run by the Barefoot College. It won the Best Documentary award at Zanzibar International Film Festival.
The other documentaries to be screened at the festival are:
Aarohan by Manish Pruthi, Pallavi Kumar, Pawan Lodhi
Green School: Footprints in the future by Giovanni Mo
A Common Story by Ananda Siddhartha,Epti Pattnaik,Piyus Garud,Pratik Bhakta
Their Last Weapon by Nirupama Singh
The Road Back Home by Shobhit Jain...
- 8/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Film Southasia, Festival of South Asian Documentaries has announced its selection for 2013 edition. Fifteen Indian documentaries will be screened at the festival that will take place from 3-6 October in Kathmandu, Nepal. Film Southasia (Fsa) is a biennial festival that was set up in 1997 with the goal of popularizing the documentary.
Selected Indian films:
A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla
Algorithms by Ian McDonald
Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles
Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi
Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee
Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray
Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose
Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney
Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj
Salma by Kim Longinotto
Sama by Shazia Khan
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...
Selected Indian films:
A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla
Algorithms by Ian McDonald
Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles
Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi
Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee
Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray
Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose
Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney
Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj
Salma by Kim Longinotto
Sama by Shazia Khan
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...
- 8/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
It made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, competing in the World Cinema Documentary category, and it now has an official USA theatrical release date, courtesy of International Film Circuit (the distributor of other topical, socially-relevant docs like The Waiting Room, Emmy-winner Where Soldiers Come From, Peabody-winner My Perestroika, The Devil Came on Horseback and the Academy Award-nominated film Darwin's Nightmare). The feature documentary is titled Fire In The Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray, and is described as an intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice," which follows an improbable...
- 8/5/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, competing in the World Cinema Documentary category, and it now has an official USA theatrical release date, courtesy of International Film Circuit (the distributor of other topical, socially-relevant docs like The Waiting Room, Emmy-winner Where Soldiers Come From, Peabody-winner My Perestroika, The Devil Came on Horseback and the Academy Award-nominated film Darwin's Nightmare). The feature documentary is titled Fire In The Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray, and is described as an intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice," which follows an improbable...
- 7/2/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A still from Fire in the Blood
After winning accolades all over the world, documentary Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray is scheduled to release in India through PVR Director’s Rare in late September/early October 2013.
The film will open in the Us in September and will begin its theatrical run with screenings at the IFC Center in New York starting September 6 and Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles starting September 13th. The documentary is being released in the Us by the International Film Circuit (IFC).
Fire in the Blood was recently launched on iTunes in UK & Ireland by Sundance Artists, and will soon be available on DVD in those countries.
The film recently won the 2013 Doxa Feature Documentary Award, the main prize at the Doxa Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver and the Justice Matters Award at the 27th Washington DC International Film Festival. It has been...
After winning accolades all over the world, documentary Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray is scheduled to release in India through PVR Director’s Rare in late September/early October 2013.
The film will open in the Us in September and will begin its theatrical run with screenings at the IFC Center in New York starting September 6 and Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles starting September 13th. The documentary is being released in the Us by the International Film Circuit (IFC).
Fire in the Blood was recently launched on iTunes in UK & Ireland by Sundance Artists, and will soon be available on DVD in those countries.
The film recently won the 2013 Doxa Feature Documentary Award, the main prize at the Doxa Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver and the Justice Matters Award at the 27th Washington DC International Film Festival. It has been...
- 7/2/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Fire in the Blood
Fire in the Blood directed by Dylan Mohan Gray has won the 2013 Doxa Feature Documentary Award, the main prize at the Doxa Documentary Film Festival, which concluded recently in Vancouver.
“Fire in the Blood is truly outstanding. The real story of the struggle to make HIV and AIDS drugs available and affordable for the world’s poor, is nothing like the headlines we’ve read. It is both a heart-breaking and a heart-warming story all in the same film and it is elevated by exceptional access to captivating moments of deep humanity and emotion.
In exploring the macrocosm of big industry and the microcosm of individual people Fire in the Blood makes clear that we are all responsible for this crisis and there is something we can do to influence change. It is a wake up call and a call to action for...
Fire in the Blood directed by Dylan Mohan Gray has won the 2013 Doxa Feature Documentary Award, the main prize at the Doxa Documentary Film Festival, which concluded recently in Vancouver.
“Fire in the Blood is truly outstanding. The real story of the struggle to make HIV and AIDS drugs available and affordable for the world’s poor, is nothing like the headlines we’ve read. It is both a heart-breaking and a heart-warming story all in the same film and it is elevated by exceptional access to captivating moments of deep humanity and emotion.
In exploring the macrocosm of big industry and the microcosm of individual people Fire in the Blood makes clear that we are all responsible for this crisis and there is something we can do to influence change. It is a wake up call and a call to action for...
- 5/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray has won Justice Matters Award at the 27th Washington DC International Film Festival 2013.
Fire in the Blood tells the story of how in the late 1990s and early 2000s, western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost anti retro-viral drugs from reaching AIDS stricken Africa–causing 10 million or more unnecessary deaths–and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Fire in the Blood is the debut film of Dylan Mohan Gray, a Mumbai based filmmaker who has earlier worked with internationally known filmmakers such as of Fatih Akin, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
The film has been screened at Sundance and Doc/Fest Sheffield among other festivals.
“This award will help draw considerably more attention to a dirty secret which too few people know anything about, and for that I am especially grateful to the jury for choosing to honor Fire In The Blood.
Fire in the Blood tells the story of how in the late 1990s and early 2000s, western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost anti retro-viral drugs from reaching AIDS stricken Africa–causing 10 million or more unnecessary deaths–and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Fire in the Blood is the debut film of Dylan Mohan Gray, a Mumbai based filmmaker who has earlier worked with internationally known filmmakers such as of Fatih Akin, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
The film has been screened at Sundance and Doc/Fest Sheffield among other festivals.
“This award will help draw considerably more attention to a dirty secret which too few people know anything about, and for that I am especially grateful to the jury for choosing to honor Fire In The Blood.
- 4/23/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Disney's Wreck-It Ralph maintains its momentum at the UK box office as half-term gave a lift to children's films
The winner
It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...
The winner
It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...
- 2/27/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
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Cloud Atlas (15)
(Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, 2012, Ger/Us/Hk/Sin) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent. 172 mins
You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. There are connections and parallels, of course, but also wild variations in tone and effectiveness. The experience is a little like channel surfing between Tom Hanks movies, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.
To The Wonder (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2012, Us) Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams. 113 mins
Those entranced (or put off) by The Tree Of Life will get more of the same from...
Cloud Atlas (15)
(Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, 2012, Ger/Us/Hk/Sin) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent. 172 mins
You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. There are connections and parallels, of course, but also wild variations in tone and effectiveness. The experience is a little like channel surfing between Tom Hanks movies, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.
To The Wonder (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2012, Us) Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams. 113 mins
Those entranced (or put off) by The Tree Of Life will get more of the same from...
- 2/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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