From Durban To Tomorrow is set as the International Aids
Conference - the largest health conference in the world - comes to
Durban, South Africa again in 2016, after first taking place there in
2000. The 2000 conference was a watershed, and led to huge
breakthroughs in access to AIDS treatment globally. In the film, we
visit five activists and learn about their work in South Africa,
Guinea, Spain, Hungary, and India, to ensure access to treatment and
quality health care for people who are most vulnerable and
marginalized. We hear their hopes and visions for the future, their
sense of what is possible, and their calls to a renewed commitment to
the fight for universal health care.
Biography:
Dylan Mohan Gray is an acclaimed Indian and Canadian filmmaker based in Mumbai. His
debut documentary feature, Fire
in the Blood, premiered
at Sundance and had the longest theatrical run of any non-fiction
film in Indian cinema history. Selected at over 100 film festivals
and winner of numerous awards, Fire
in the Blood helped
change the global discourse around access to medicine and was named
one of "26 landmark documentary films of the past seven decades"
in a major retrospective curated by legendary documentarian John
Pilger. Dylan recently directed Netflix's first Indian-themed,
non-fiction original film, The
King of Good Times,
which releases in September 2020, while From
Durban to Tomorrow, his
film on the future of human rights in global health, premiered in
competition at the 2020 Mumbai International Film Festival.
Originally trained as a historian, Dylan teaches and has a special
interest in work with linkages to contemporary history.
