It is also an exposé of the fundamentally flawed and corrupt system by which medicine is developed and commercialized, and a warning call that as things now stand life-saving drugs are almost certain to continue becoming less and less accessible with the passage of time, in rich countries as well as poor, and that the lives of literally hundreds of millions of people hang in the balance. On the other hand, it is the untold story of an extraordinary group of people from different parts of the world who came together to break this blockade, often at great risk to their own lives and liberty. At least ten million people who could have been saved with available, low-cost medication died painful deaths, and while none of this happened by accident, no one has ever been held to account. 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 after they were more or less universally available in the US and every other Western country. 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.” Gathering all of his disparate collaborations and experiences, “Fire in the Blood” represents the culmination of a long and personal journey. 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. After a career in various other capacities in the international film industry, Dylan Mohan Gray has arrived at Sundance 2013 with his filmmaking debut.
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