Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are shining a light on the remarkable true story of three young doctors who saved millions of lives by rethinking the way healthcare is administered in the developing world.
The film, called Bending the Arc, tells the story of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim (now the President of the World Bank) and Ophelia Dahl, who, while barely out of their teens, came together in a squatter settlement in Haiti and began transforming the face of global health care.
Telling their incredible story has been a passion project for the Damon and Affleck, who worked on the film as executive producers.
The film, called Bending the Arc, tells the story of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim (now the President of the World Bank) and Ophelia Dahl, who, while barely out of their teens, came together in a squatter settlement in Haiti and began transforming the face of global health care.
Telling their incredible story has been a passion project for the Damon and Affleck, who worked on the film as executive producers.
- 9/19/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Abramorama has picked up the U.S. theatrical rights to Bending the Arc, a documentary by directors Kief Davidson (The Ivory Game) and Pedro Kos (The Square), and plans a limited release beginning October 6 in New York. The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, revolves around three Harvard med students — Jim Kim (current President of the World Bank), Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl — who became pioneers of global health, literally inventing an international framework…...
- 8/16/2017
- Deadline
Bending the Arc, Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos' documentary about doctors working in a rural Haitian village, will serve as the opening film at the third annual Greenwich International Film Festival, which is set to run June 1-4 in Greenwich, Conn.
The film will screen June 2, followed by a Town Hall Panel Q&A moderated by Barbara Pierce Bush and featuring Ophelia Dahl (Partners in Health), writer/producer Cori Stern, Joia Mukherjee (Partners in Health) and Rifat Latifi, M.D., from Westchester Medical Center, discussing the state of global healthcare.
The event will kick off June 1 with its Changemaker...
The film will screen June 2, followed by a Town Hall Panel Q&A moderated by Barbara Pierce Bush and featuring Ophelia Dahl (Partners in Health), writer/producer Cori Stern, Joia Mukherjee (Partners in Health) and Rifat Latifi, M.D., from Westchester Medical Center, discussing the state of global healthcare.
The event will kick off June 1 with its Changemaker...
- 5/13/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A superhero movie world-premiered at Sundance to thunderous applause. No, not a comic-book kind of creature, but the real-world heroism of three gifted caregivers that took on the might of the medical universe and triumphed for mankind.
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 ignite a healthcare movement. Their mission: to deliver basic health care to those who had no access to even the most rudimentary medical help. Their obstacles: The World Bank, the...
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 ignite a healthcare movement. Their mission: to deliver basic health care to those who had no access to even the most rudimentary medical help. Their obstacles: The World Bank, the...
- 1/24/2017
- by Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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