Mumbai, Oct 3 (Ians) With audiences for the format expanding and streaming services making them more accessible, documentaries have broken out from the stereotype of being just film festival fixtures. Participating in a panel discussion titled ‘Decoding Documentaries’ here, filmmakers Claire Cahill, Dylan Mohan Gray and Leena Yadav shared their perspective on the genre. The […]...
- 10/3/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
OTTInterviews of key people like Sidhartha Vijay Mallya, Shobha De add little value to giving any insights to the subject of the episode.Pooja PrasannaScreenshot/NetflixNetflix has been building up Bad Boy Billionaires as an "investigative docu series" and has run into several controversies and legal entanglements. Among the 'bad boys' featured is liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is currently absconding from India. Suitably, the episode is titled The King of Good Times and is directed by Dylan Mohan Gray. The King opens with one of Mallya's extravagant parties with high profile guests extolling his generosity and passion for all things grand. This sets the theme for the rest of the episode. Footage from his lavish parties go on to establish how his glamorous guests adored Mallya. But the pomp, as we go on to realise, wasn't incidental but deliberate. The documentary does a fine job of capturing the early...
- 10/9/2020
- by Geetika
- The News Minute
InterviewDirector Dylan Mohan Gray has directed the first episode of 'Bad Boy Billionaires', which is based on absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya.Sanyukta DharmadhikariDylan Mohan GrayAfter a delay of over a month, three episodes of the Netflix documentary series Bad Boy Billionaires have been released on Netflix. In an interview with Dylan Mohan Gray, who has directed the first episode of the series King of Good Times, which is based on the absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya, he reveals why he chose to tell Mallya’s story, the feedback and criticism the episode has faced and the legal tussle that clouded the release: Are you happy with the response to Bad Boy Billionaires so far? Yes, I am very happy with it. Obviously, there are some people who have very strong feelings about the characters in the film. They will occasionally see conspiracy theories behind any account. But I think,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Sanyukta
- The News Minute
“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
★★★★★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
The Sundance Institute and Mahindra Group division Mumbai Mantra have announced the eight Indian Screenwriters selected for the third annual Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab.
The Lab is set to run at the Club Mahindra Resort in Tungi from March 16-21.
The Screenwriting Fellows, selected from submissions from India and the Indian diaspora around the world, are:
Navneet Behal (Experiments With Truth)Ashvin Kumar (Noor)Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts)Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude)Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma)Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day Of Winter) Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder)Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Ud Jayega / Fly Away Solo).
The Lab is set to run at the Club Mahindra Resort in Tungi from March 16-21.
The Screenwriting Fellows, selected from submissions from India and the Indian diaspora around the world, are:
Navneet Behal (Experiments With Truth)Ashvin Kumar (Noor)Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts)Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude)Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma)Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day Of Winter) Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder)Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Ud Jayega / Fly Away Solo).
- 3/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Institute and Mahindra Group division Mumbai Mantra have announced the eight Indian Screenwriters selected for the third annual Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab.
The Lab is set to run at the Club Mahindra Resort in Tungi from March 16-21.
The Screenwriting Fellows, selected from submissions from India and the Indian diaspora around the world, are:
Navneet Behal (Experiments With Truth);
Ashvin Kumar (Noor);
Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts);
Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude);
Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma);
Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day Of Winter); Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder); and
Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Ud Jayega / Fly Away Solo).
The Lab is set to run at the Club Mahindra Resort in Tungi from March 16-21.
The Screenwriting Fellows, selected from submissions from India and the Indian diaspora around the world, are:
Navneet Behal (Experiments With Truth);
Ashvin Kumar (Noor);
Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts);
Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude);
Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma);
Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day Of Winter); Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder); and
Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Ud Jayega / Fly Away Solo).
- 3/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Mumbai Mantra Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab announced the eight fellows of the 2014 lab today.
Ashvin Kumar (Noor) Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts) Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Fly Away Solo) Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude) Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma) Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder) Navneet Behal (Experiments with Truth), co-written with Maitrey Bajpai and Ramiz Ilham Khan Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day of Winter), co-written with Vikramaditya Motwane)
The selected writers will be mentored by American and Indian screenwriters such as Golden Globe winner Naomi Foner (Running on Empty, Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and Oscar nomination in the same category), Sooni Taraporevala (Salaam Bombay). Here is the complete list of mentors:-
Naomi Foner
Michael Handelman
Dante Harper
James V Hart
Anjum Rajabali
Malia Scotch Marmo
Elena Soarez
Sooni Taraporevala
Rose Troche...
Ashvin Kumar (Noor) Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts) Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Fly Away Solo) Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude) Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma) Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder) Navneet Behal (Experiments with Truth), co-written with Maitrey Bajpai and Ramiz Ilham Khan Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day of Winter), co-written with Vikramaditya Motwane)
The selected writers will be mentored by American and Indian screenwriters such as Golden Globe winner Naomi Foner (Running on Empty, Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and Oscar nomination in the same category), Sooni Taraporevala (Salaam Bombay). Here is the complete list of mentors:-
Naomi Foner
Michael Handelman
Dante Harper
James V Hart
Anjum Rajabali
Malia Scotch Marmo
Elena Soarez
Sooni Taraporevala
Rose Troche...
- 3/16/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Dylan Mohan Gray's debut Fire In The Blood - which premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest last year and received critical acclaim at Sundance - is a stinging indictment of the Western world's reaction to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and a persuasive argument against the patent laws that are being used by big pharmaceutical companies to protect their profits regardless of the cost to human life. The film is out in selected cinemas from February 22 (venue details available from the official site) and we caught up with Dylan to talk about the film earlier this week.
Aw: The film is likely to leave audiences feeling quite angry? Were you hoping for that?
Dmg: There are different levels to get quite angry about this whole story - that was the reaction I had when I first started learning about it. First of all,...
Aw: The film is likely to leave audiences feeling quite angry? Were you hoping for that?
Dmg: There are different levels to get quite angry about this whole story - that was the reaction I had when I first started learning about it. First of all,...
- 2/20/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month, competing in the World Cinema Documentary category, and now it's heading to theaters, but only in select UK and Irish cinemas at the moment. 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 group of people who decided to fight back against western governments and pharmaceutical companies that blocked low-cost antiretroviral drugs from reaching AIDS patients in continental Africa, in the late 1990s and early 2000s,...
- 2/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Still from Fire in the Blood
Having worked with some of the influential names in world cinema like Fatih Akin, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta; Mumbai-based filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray made his debut documentary on one of the most complex issues of the century: western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocking access to low-cost AIDS drugs in Africa and southern countries of the world, causing million of deaths and the people who decided to fight back. Fire in the Blood recently screened in World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival. DearCinema talks to the filmmaker:
What was the starting point for this documentary?
I read an article in a news magazine back in 2004 which initially sparked my interest in the story. Getting to know a few key players in the events fleshed that out, but I guess the key element in making me want to do something on it was...
Having worked with some of the influential names in world cinema like Fatih Akin, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta; Mumbai-based filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray made his debut documentary on one of the most complex issues of the century: western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocking access to low-cost AIDS drugs in Africa and southern countries of the world, causing million of deaths and the people who decided to fight back. Fire in the Blood recently screened in World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival. DearCinema talks to the filmmaker:
What was the starting point for this documentary?
I read an article in a news magazine back in 2004 which initially sparked my interest in the story. Getting to know a few key players in the events fleshed that out, but I guess the key element in making me want to do something on it was...
- 2/4/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Korean film Jiseul directed by Muel O won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival 2013 that concluded yesterday.
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to A River Changes Course, a Cambodia-u.S.A. production directed by Kalyanee Mam.
Egypt – U.S.A. co-production The Square (Al Midan) won the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary. The film is directed by Jehane Noujaim. Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to United Kingdom – Philippines co-production Metro Manila, directed by Sean Ellis.
Audience Award: Best of Next was conferred to U.S.A.’s This is Martin Bonner by Chad Hartigan.
Tinatin Gurchiani won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary section for his Georgia- Germany co-production The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear while Sebastián Silva won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category for Chilean film Crystal Fairy.
Screenwriting...
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to A River Changes Course, a Cambodia-u.S.A. production directed by Kalyanee Mam.
Egypt – U.S.A. co-production The Square (Al Midan) won the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary. The film is directed by Jehane Noujaim. Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to United Kingdom – Philippines co-production Metro Manila, directed by Sean Ellis.
Audience Award: Best of Next was conferred to U.S.A.’s This is Martin Bonner by Chad Hartigan.
Tinatin Gurchiani won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary section for his Georgia- Germany co-production The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear while Sebastián Silva won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category for Chilean film Crystal Fairy.
Screenwriting...
- 1/27/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
After a career in various other capacities in the international film industry, Dylan Mohan Gray has arrived at Sundance 2013 with his filmmaking debut. Self-described as a "garden variety Punjabi-Irish hybrid, lover of contemporary history and politics," Gray studied film in college, but not necessarily with the express purpose of making them. Gathering all of his disparate collaborations and experiences, "Fire in the Blood" represents the culmination of a long and personal journey. What It's About: "It’s the story of an unimaginable crime and the unlikely group of people who took on the world’s most powerful companies and governments in an effort to stop the carnage." Now What It's Really About: "'Fire in the Blood' is, on the one hand, a chronicle of one of the greatest crimes in human history, the willful denial of AIDS drugs to Africa and other parts of the global south for several years.
- 1/18/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 Premieres and Docu Premieres section including (image featured above) Who is Dayani Cristal?. If you know of any other twitter feeds (producers, production houses, editors, Dps, scribes – etc.) we can add for each individual film – please let us know.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The Future
Director and screenwriter Alicia Scherson – @scherson
Houston
Actor Garret Dillahunt – @garretdillahunt
Metro Manila
Actors Jake Macapagal – @jakepromac, John Arcilla – @JohnArcilla, Althea Vega – @altheavega
Soldate Jeannette – @Jeannette_film
What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love
Director and screenwriter Mouly Surya – @moulysurya
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Fire in the Blood – @fitbmovie
Director Dylan Mohan Gray – @DylanMohanGray
Google and the World Brain
Director Ben Lewis – @artsafarist
The Moo Man
Directors Andy Heathcote – @moomanmovie, Heike Bachelier – @HeikeBachelier
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer – @PussyRiotDoc
Co-director Maxim Pozdorovkin – @pozdor
A River...
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The Future
Director and screenwriter Alicia Scherson – @scherson
Houston
Actor Garret Dillahunt – @garretdillahunt
Metro Manila
Actors Jake Macapagal – @jakepromac, John Arcilla – @JohnArcilla, Althea Vega – @altheavega
Soldate Jeannette – @Jeannette_film
What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love
Director and screenwriter Mouly Surya – @moulysurya
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Fire in the Blood – @fitbmovie
Director Dylan Mohan Gray – @DylanMohanGray
Google and the World Brain
Director Ben Lewis – @artsafarist
The Moo Man
Directors Andy Heathcote – @moomanmovie, Heike Bachelier – @HeikeBachelier
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer – @PussyRiotDoc
Co-director Maxim Pozdorovkin – @pozdor
A River...
- 1/17/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Still from Salma
This year India is represented at Sundance Film Festival by one fiction film and two documentaries–Gangs of Wasseypur, Fire in the Blood and Salma– which is commendable considering its track record at the premier film festival. The three films were selected from 12,146 submissions from all around the world.
In 2012, Valley of Saints (India-us) by Musa Syeed won the World Cinema Audience Award in the Dramatic category. In 2011, The Bengali Detective (India-us-Britain) directed by Philip Cox competed in World Cinema Documentary section while Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli (Live) participated in World Cinema Narrative competition in 2010.
This year, not only there are three films from India at the festival, but Anurag Kashyap has been invited to sit on the World Cinema Dramatic Jury. For Gangs of Wasseypur, Kashyap was awarded the Screen International Jury Grand Prize for Achievement in Directing at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2012 and has...
This year India is represented at Sundance Film Festival by one fiction film and two documentaries–Gangs of Wasseypur, Fire in the Blood and Salma– which is commendable considering its track record at the premier film festival. The three films were selected from 12,146 submissions from all around the world.
In 2012, Valley of Saints (India-us) by Musa Syeed won the World Cinema Audience Award in the Dramatic category. In 2011, The Bengali Detective (India-us-Britain) directed by Philip Cox competed in World Cinema Documentary section while Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli (Live) participated in World Cinema Narrative competition in 2010.
This year, not only there are three films from India at the festival, but Anurag Kashyap has been invited to sit on the World Cinema Dramatic Jury. For Gangs of Wasseypur, Kashyap was awarded the Screen International Jury Grand Prize for Achievement in Directing at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2012 and has...
- 1/17/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Continuing our highlights of films scheduled to screen at month's Sundance Film Festival, here are a whole bunch of clips from a feature documentary we previously profiled, that will compete in the World Cinema Documentary category, titled Fire In Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray. The short story, courtesy of Sundance, goes... 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 deaths. An improbable group of people decided to fight back. Said to be shot on 4 continents, the work of investigative film...
- 1/8/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
While funding and distribution in India still remain a herculean challenge, 2012 seems to have slightly bettered the prospects for Indian documentaries. At par with their fiction film cousins, they not only made waves at international film festivals but a few of them also achieved limited release in domestic theatres. DearCinema lists the top ten favourite documentaries of the year (based on festival participation, awards and reviews):
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
- 12/27/2012
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Continuing our highlights of films scheduled to screen at month's Sundance Film Festival, here's a clip from a feature documentary that will compete in the World Cinema Documentary category, titled Fire In Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray. The short story, courtesy of Sundance, goes... 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 deaths. An improbable group of people decided to fight back. I'm definitely curious to see the full film, and I'm looking forward to Tambay's review of it...
- 12/26/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Hmm... I'm definitely curious. I'd need to see more. But based on the little I see and read here, and what I already know about the subject matter, I'm definitely interested. Continuing our highlights of films scheduled to screen at next year's Sundance Film Festival, here's a feature documentary that will compete in the World Cinema Documentary category, titled Fire In Blood, from director Dylan Mohan Gray. The short story, courtesy of Sundance, goes... 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...
- 12/6/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Apart from Fire In The Blood, a feature length documentary by Dylan Mohan Gray, the World Documentary Competition line up of the 2013 edition of Sundance Film Festival includes another film on an Indian subject. It’s an UK/India co-production. The film is directed by Kim Longinotto a very well-known British documentary filmmaker who is known to make films on the plight of female victims of oppression and discrimination. And here is the most important trivia about her. She is Read More...
- 11/29/2012
- Bollywood Trade
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival line up includes just one film made by an Indian in the films announced thus far. Fire In The Blood directed by Dylan Mohan Gray a trained historian and filmmaker and a citizen of Canada and India, now settled in Mumbai. The film will have its North American premiere in World Cinema Documentary Section. Read More...
- 11/29/2012
- Bollywood Trade
Still from Fire in the Blood
Two Indian documentaries have been selected to screen in World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2013.
Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray, which previously screened at Doc/Fest Sheffield, will have its North American Premiere at the festival. 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 deaths–and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Salma (United Kingdom, India) directed by Kim Longinotto (Pink Saris) will have its World Premiere at the festival. “When Salma, a young girl in South India, reached puberty, her parents locked her away. Millions of girls all over the world share the same fate. Twenty-five years later, Salma has fought her way back to the outside world.
Two Indian documentaries have been selected to screen in World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2013.
Fire in the Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray, which previously screened at Doc/Fest Sheffield, will have its North American Premiere at the festival. 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 deaths–and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Salma (United Kingdom, India) directed by Kim Longinotto (Pink Saris) will have its World Premiere at the festival. “When Salma, a young girl in South India, reached puberty, her parents locked her away. Millions of girls all over the world share the same fate. Twenty-five years later, Salma has fought her way back to the outside world.
- 11/29/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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