Fire in the Blood

Name: Fire in the Blood
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: September 6, 2013
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 68

2013

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International Film Circuit | Release Date: September 6, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: 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 groupAn 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.… Expand

Director: Dylan Mohan Gray

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Daphne Howland

Sep 3, 2013

While it's hardly a joy to watch, Fire in the Blood is artful in nearly every frame, perhaps so we don't avert our eyes. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

Sep 5, 2013

I hope viewers don’t come away from this essential documentary with the belief that Western AIDS activists in general turned their backs on poor black people just as soon as they got medicine that worked. That isn’t remotely fair. Blame for the African AIDS holocaust falls on the Big Pharma companies who put patents and profits ahead of human life, and on all of us who let them get away with it. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Sep 6, 2013

Though the film comprehensively details the political and economic subtleties of what it declares “the crime of the century,” its narrative remains primarily a human-focused one, highlighting the stories of selected steadfast victims, as well as the heroic movers and shakers in the struggle. Read full review

Miriam Bale

Sep 5, 2013

This virtuous stance is not unusual for issue-based documentaries, but a film with such illuminating content deserves a more artful vehicle for its moving message. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 12, 2013

Unfortunately, Dylan Mohan Gray's slow and steady exposé never quite manages the propulsive gut punch its incendiary subject demands. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Sep 3, 2013

The film strikes the right balance of outrage, hopefulness and despair, compellingly arguing the case that a profit-driven, racially motivated collusion exists between Big Pharma and the U.S. government. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Sep 4, 2013

It produces a collection of one-dimensional facts strung together with an utmost respect for chronology and documentary-making's most stale conventions. Read full review

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