29 April 2014, 05:30 am
Fire in the Blood (87 min; 2013; dvd; English
Director: Dylan Mohan Gray
Narrated by William Hurt
Recipient of the Feature Documentary Award, DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2013; Critics Award – Political Film Prize, Hamburg Film Festival 2013; Justice Matters Award, Washington DC Filmfest 2013
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
Narrated by William Hurt
Recipient of the Feature Documentary Award, DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2013; Critics Award – Political Film Prize, Hamburg Film Festival 2013; Justice Matters Award, Washington DC Filmfest 2013
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
