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
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
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
Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert’s new documentary “Gmo Omg,” which opens in Los Angeles on Friday, is a layman’s look at the world of industrial agriculture — GMOs being “genetically modified organisms.” Or, as we think of them, foods. By design, the industry is irreproachable and impenetrable, run by corporate behemoths. And to question their scientific methods or authority is to be ill-informed, unsophisticated — or stupid. But Seifert (pictured below) is unperturbed. He moves beyond the industry’s Fda approval of genetically modified foods to tap the wall of corporate concealment. Like Peter Joseph’s “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward,” Robert Kenner’s “Food,...
- 9/20/2013
- by Laurene Williams
- The Wrap
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
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
The pharmaceutical giants make a horribly racist defence for their African misdemeanours in a solid piece of reportage
A slightly dry, yet solid reportage on a humanitarian disgrace: the failure of western pharmaceutical companies to provide affordable drugs to patients in the developing world. As presented, the corporate defence sounds horribly racist: that poorer Africans' inability to read packaging or tell the time leaves them ill-suited to following any medication program. For some time, director Dylan Mohan Gray is limited to restating the same depressing story, using input from doctors and campaigners to punctuate footage of families grieving around child-sized coffins. But hope emerges in the form of the Indian physicist Yusuf Hamied, whose company Cipla undertook in the noughties to produce cheap, generic drugs in defiance of the Pfizer patent lawyers. As the indignation rises, the outcome of this battle cannot entirely be guessed, although one closing credit appears...
A slightly dry, yet solid reportage on a humanitarian disgrace: the failure of western pharmaceutical companies to provide affordable drugs to patients in the developing world. As presented, the corporate defence sounds horribly racist: that poorer Africans' inability to read packaging or tell the time leaves them ill-suited to following any medication program. For some time, director Dylan Mohan Gray is limited to restating the same depressing story, using input from doctors and campaigners to punctuate footage of families grieving around child-sized coffins. But hope emerges in the form of the Indian physicist Yusuf Hamied, whose company Cipla undertook in the noughties to produce cheap, generic drugs in defiance of the Pfizer patent lawyers. As the indignation rises, the outcome of this battle cannot entirely be guessed, although one closing credit appears...
- 2/22/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Here is a complete listing of the films that were shown/covered by the Ioncinema.com team comprised of Nicholas Bell (Nb), Jordan M. Smith (Js) and Eric Lavallee (El). We’ll be populating this page up until March.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
- 1/29/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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