Through candid interviews and neverbeforeseen archival footage, the film profiles the fiercely dedicated group of doctors and activists as they deliver the highestquality care in the most. Using mostly unseen photos and film footage from the 1960s, along with clips from more than 60. Healthcare doc bending the arc, exec produced by matt. Film tells story of partners in health and the impact of three people. In the event production of the film is abandoned, the completion guarantor will fully repay all sums invested in the film by the bank or financiers. Bending the arc reveals superheroes behind altruistic. Bending the arc film screening university of new england. Mcgill global health film festival channels mcgill university. Cori shepherd stern is an academy award nominated producer and screenwriter who works on both documentary and fiction film projects. Most magically, it transcends the colossal power of its own story to show how individual beings, one step at a time, can right the course of inequality and injustice. Other films include kassim the dream and the devils miner, which have won awards at afi fest, idfa, and tribeca film festival, in addition to the fipresci. Her film credits include warm bodies, open hearts, and sonita.
The extraordinary doctors and activists whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural hatian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to. Directors kief davidson and pedro kos follow their ongoing struggle to treat and eradicate tuberculosis and hivaids in rural areas of haiti, peru, and rwanda. Bending the arc documentary showing at emerson film. Matt damon, ben affleck hope bending the arc inspires millennials ben affleck, right, the director, writer, producer and star of live by night, poses with matt damon at the premiere of the. His previous film the ivory game 2016, produced by leonardo dicaprio, premiered at the telluride film festival and was released by netflix. The 19thcentury boston unitarian preacher theodore parker is quoted as saying i do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one. Bending the arc is available for community screenings starting in october.
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Thirty years ago, a group of young, enthusiastic, and caring friends came together with a goal that was both simple and complex. Awards audience award documentary feature, berkshire international film festival 2017. Bending the arc is the first film in the 201718 doc soup series copresented by hot docs. We offer a full range of affordable distribution, educational, and marketing education to independent filmmakers looking to reach out to traditionally underserved audiences. His film bending the arc premiered at this years sundance film festival, and it tells the story of doctors and activists on the front lines of a global health crisis. Bending the arc documents groups fight to save lives in. Joia mukherjee, and others the documentary premiered at the sundance film festival in january and has since screened at film festivals around the country, including the aspen ideas. Partners in health cofounder paul farmer in bending the arc. The right to health careand, by implication, the right to lifeis under the microscope again. Spanning 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high, this modern engineering marvel amazes visitors young and old. Matt damon, ben affleck hope bending the arc inspires. As the poorest nations battled intractable diseases, a fledgling group of unstoppable health advocates took on a seemingly impossible mission. In 1983, a couple of young volunteers at a clinic in haiti learned that people were dying of curable diseases only because they were not being treated. Bending the arc 2017 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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It tells the story of partners in health and doctors and humanitarians, jim yong kim, ophelia dahl, and paul farmer. Id lost all hope, a rail thin young woman says in the early moments of the new documentary, bending the arc. Walkers documentary feature film, the crash reel, which won the audience award at the 20 south by southwest film festival. In 1983, three young people barely out of their teens began a public health revolution by treating patients who had been abandoned by the health establishment. Pedro recently edited jehane noujaims academy award and spirit award nominee, the square, which also won the dga and ida award for best feature documentary film, the documentary peoples choice award at the 20 toronto film. About bending the arc learn more about the documentary film. Through interviews and ontheground footage shot in the midst of a deadly epidemic, directors kief davidson and pedro kos are immersed in the thirty. By peter keough globe correspondent, october 12, 2017, 4. Bending the arc is a powerful documentary about this extraordinary team of doctors and activists whose work 30 years ago grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all. Other films include kassim the dream and the devils miner, which. Ark encounter is situated in beautiful grant county in williamstown, kentucky, halfway between cincinnati and lexington and. Kief davidson is an academy awardnominated director. We ordered a round window and they have made it and it looks amazing.
Manufacturing costs will be reduced significantly because the film eliminates secondary polishing or having to scrap expensive blanks. The effect of bending in thinfilm batteries is still not well understood. Bending the arc unwinds as a stunning documentary about a team of young people paul farmer, jim yong kim, ophelia dahl whose charitable medical work 30 years ago in remote haiti came to. Kief also directed a lego brickumentary radiustwc and hbos academy awardnominated open heart. At a recent screening, bending the arc filmmakers kief davidson and pedro kos were present and spoke about how long it took to make the film. It tells the story of partners in health and doctors and humanitarians, jim yong kim, ophelia dahl, and paul farmer, who are devoted to innovative health care in impoverished nations. The strike price, or the production price as it is sometimes referred, is the amount that the completion guarantor believes will be needed in order to complete and deliver the film. These agreements between another firm and a small firm with a. Watch online since launching the first jewish film festival website in 2000 for the san francisco jewish film festival, the jewish film institute has broadened its commitment to providing access to relevant, engaging and highquality jewish film and media online for audiences around the world. Bending the arc marks pedros documentary feature directorial debut.
Thirty years ago, a group of improbable heroes came together on a mission that was both medical and moral, and, by everyones estimation other than their own, highly unlikely to succeed. This inspiring documentary charts the success of partners in health, an ngo which builds hospitals and delivers health care throughout the world as they work to bend the arc toward justice. A feelgood documentary thats literally about making people feel good, bending the arc dives into the quagmire of global health care with the sunny insouciance and cando brio of its. Epic, yet intimate, the film reaches far beyond the issue of healthcare with a grander narrative about how the evolution of humanity takes place. Movie detail page village east cinema bending the arc. Tuesday, were continuing our through the lens series with documentary director and editor pedro kos. Bending the arc toward justice a film about the struggle. Epic, yet intimate, the film is a compelling argument for the power of collective and personal vision and will to turn the tide of history.