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- Directed by Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke
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Co-directed by Matthew Heineman and Academy Award-nominee Susan Froemke (LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON), ESCAPE FIRE looks at a U.S. healthcare system designed to profit on disease not health, reward quantity over quality, and promote high-tech over high-touch. It interweaves dramatic personal stories with the efforts of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military.
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Won: Human Rights Award (Fr?mke, Heineman), 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; Outstanding Achievement in Documentary, 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival
Nominated: Grand Jury Prize, 2012 Sundance Film Festival
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Health care is a difficult subject to make compelling onscreen -- much less in a nonpartisan manner -- which makes ESCAPE FIRE a documentary with major breakout potential... The movie clarifies the central disconnect in our political debate.
-- Ben Kenigsberg, TIMEOUT CHICAGO
- More on Escape Fire: The Fight To Rescue American Healthcare:
- Official film Web site
- Interview with director Matthew Heineman
- Interview with director Matthew Heineman
Genres: Documentary