From Durban to Tomorrow
Logline:
Five frontline health advocates from different parts of the world work through victories and defeats forging a path toward a meaningful, universal human right to health.
Synopsis:
With the inequities of global health more evident and stark today than at any point in history, FROM DURBAN TO TOMORROW recalls the mass protests led by people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa, which radically transformed the global landscape for human rights in health some two decades ago. These events in the year 2000 gave rise to a series of major advances in public health for marginalised people the world over, yet recent years have seen many of these hard-won gains severely eroded, putting tens of millions of lives at risk and compounding the threat posed by a deadly global pandemic. In FROM DURBAN TO TOMORROW, the stories of five frontline health advocates from different parts of the world underscore this rapidly worsening crisis and herald the impending battle for a meaningful, universal human right to health.
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Dylan Mohan GrayDirectorFire in the Blood, The King of Good Times (Bad Boy Billionaires/Netflix original)
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Dylan Mohan GrayWriterFire in the Blood, The King of Good Times (Bad Boy Billionaires/Netflix original)
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Dylan Mohan GrayProducerFire in the Blood, The King of Good Times (Bad Boy Billionaires/Netflix original)
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Brett Davidson (Executive Producer)Producer
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Meenu SeshuKey Contributors
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Mouslihou DialloKey Contributors
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Péter SárosiKey Contributors
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Vanessa LópezKey Contributors
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Vuyiseka Dubula-MajolaKey Contributors
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Abhro BanerjeeEditors
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Ronelle LootsEditors
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Jay J. OdedraCinematography
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Luca PetraccaOriginal Music
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Rajiv KenkreSound Design
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Abhinav RamachandranSound Design
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Ashutosh PhatakMusic Supervisor
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:39 minutes 58 seconds
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Completion Date:January 10, 2020
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Country of Origin:South Africa
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Country of Filming:Guinea, Hungary, India, South Africa, Spain
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Language:English, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Marathi, Spanish, Xhosa
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Shooting Format:Canon C300 Mark II
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Aspect Ratio:2.39:1/16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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2020 Mumbai International Film FestivalMumbai
India
January 30, 2020
World Premiere
International Competition -
2020 Social Justice Film FestivalSeattle
United States
October 1, 2020
Health Issues Now -
2020 United Nations Association Film FestivalPalo Alto, California
United States
October 23, 2020 -
2020 Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de MadridMadrid
Spain
December 4, 2020 -
2020 Terra Gollut Film FestivalGirona
Spain
October 17, 2020
Feature Film Competition -
2020 Minority Health Film FestivalMilwaukee
United States
September 10, 2020 -
2020 Marda Loop Justice Film FestivalCalgary
Canada
November 19, 2020
Canadian Premiere -
2020 I-View World Film FestivalDelhi
India
December 10, 2020 -
2020 Red Deer Film FestivalRed Deer
Canada
November 20, 2020 -
2021 Global Health Film DaysCopenhagen
Denmark
May 21, 2021 -
2021 International Panoramic Film Festival of IndiaChennai
India
Best Film on Human Rights: Short -
2021 Bacalar International Film FestivalBacalar
Mexico
Best Human Rights Feature Film -
2021 Valparai International Film FestivalCoimbatore
India
July 10, 2021
Best Documentary Short Film -
2021 Mannheim Arts and Film FestivalMannheim
Germany
July 13, 2021
Best Documentary, Honourable Mention -
2021 New York Independent Cinema AwardsNew York
United States
July 10, 2021
Best International Documentary Short
Dylan Mohan Gray is a Mumbai-based writer and filmmaker. His projects include the documentary feature "Fire in the Blood", which premiered at Sundance and went on to have the longest theatrical run of any non-fiction film in Indian cinema history. Selected at over 100 international film festivals, winner of numerous awards and the first documentary from India to be released theatrically in both the US and UK, "Fire in the Blood" helped change the global conversation around access to lifesaving medicine. In 2019, it was named one of "26 landmark documentary films of the past seven decades" in The Power of the Documentary, a major retrospective curated by legendary documentarian John Pilger.
Most recently Dylan directed Netflix's first India-focussed non-fiction original, “The King of Good Times”, opening film of the documentary anthology series Bad Boy Billionaires. It enjoyed a multiple-week run as the #1 most-watched title across all genres on Netflix India and was the most-watched documentary of the year 2020 in India.
Originally trained as a historian, Dylan has a special interest in stories with linkages to contemporary history and is currently working on several projects in this vein.
The unfolding battle for equitable access to COVID vaccines is a timely reminder that the forces of greed are omnipresent in the realm of public health, flowery homilies about "caring", "curing the world" and "scientific innovation" notwithstanding. FROM DURBAN TO TOMORROW is a short but important film, highlighting the global connections between grassroots people's movements approaching fundamental human rights in health from different angles and making common cause to move the world forward to a place where the primary considerations in ‘healthcare’ are not runaway profit and intentional scarcity, but an understanding that we as a species can only rise or fall together.