Resistance Fighters - The Global Antibiotic Crisis

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Movie
Original title Resistance Fighters - The Global Antibiotic Crisis
Country of production Germany
original language English , German
Publishing year 2019
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Michael Wech
script Michael Wech
production Leopold Hoesch
music Andreas Lucas
camera Johannes Imdahl
Sven Kiesche
cut Michael Scheffold

Resistance Fighters - The global antibiotic crisis is a documentary film of the German director Michael Wech and producer Leopold Hoesch from the year 2019 . The film was broadcast on Arte on March 19, 2019 and celebrated its international festival premiere on March 24, 2019 at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival CPH: DOX.

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The film deals with the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance spreading around the world and the associated consequences for human coexistence. The starting point for the documentary is the UN's special meeting in New York in September 2016 , at which the problem of the growing global antibiotic resistance was a central theme. In the course of the film, various experts in the field are discussed: Scientists, such as u. a. Timothy Walsh, one of the world's leading microbiologists on antibiotic resistance from Cardiff University , who is looking for the causes of the spread of resistance and alternatives to antibiotics, politicians such as British financial expert Jim O'Neill , who was appointed special envoy by then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2014 for antibiotic resistance who want to draw public attention to the problem and focus on the economic dimension of antibiotic resistance, as well as those affected and their doctors who fight infections with multi-resistant germs in hospitals. The use of antibiotics in animal fattening plays a central role in the film. In addition, the discovery of the first antibiotic penicillin by the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming and the rise of antibiotics as a remedy used worldwide are discussed. The film was shot in the USA, Great Britain, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Germany, among others.

Production and sales

The film is a co-production by Broadview Pictures and ZDF and was made in collaboration with Arte . It was funded by the Hessian Film Fund and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW .

The film was distributed from February 2019 by the documentary film distributor Dogwoof, which, among other things, distributed the Oscar-winning documentary film Free Solo .

Festivals and prizes

  • March 2019: International festival premiere at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH: DOX
  • June 2019: Performance in Halle (Saale) at the Silbersalz Science & Media Festival
  • September 2019: USA premiere in New York as part of the General Assembly of the United Nations . Opening speech by US Secretary of Health Alex Azar (supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Wellcome Trust )
  • October 2019: Canada premiere in Vancouver at the Vancouver International Film Festival - "Impact Award" winner
  • October 2019: Screening in Palo Alto at the United Nations Association Film Festival
  • October 2019: Screening in Paris at the Pariscience Film Festival - winner "Grand Prix AST - Ville de Paris"
  • January 2020 : Performed in La Jolla, California at the Impact Doc Awards - Winner “Award of Excellence Special Mention: Documentary Feature”
  • January 2020: Screening in Dhaka, Bangladesh at the Dhaka International Film Festival
  • February 2020: Screening in Rotterdam at the Durch Global Health Film Festival, Rotterdam
  • February 2020 : Screening in Sedona at the Sedona International Film Festival
  • April 2020 : Screening in Olomouc at the Academia Film Olomouc Festival
  • 2020 : Performance in Kiev at the Kiev International Film Festival
  • June 2020: Nomination for the German Television Award in the category "Best Documentation"
  • June 2020: Winner of the German Television Award in the category "Best Editing Info / Documentation"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://dogwoofsales.com/blogs/2019/2/21/new-acquisition-resistance-fighters
  2. ^ German Films: Selected International Film Festivals. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ program | Silver Salt Festival. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://antimicrobialresistancefighters.org/events
  5. ↑ https://www.viff.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=f33719-resistance-fighters&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
  6. ↑ https://archive.viff.org/e-blasts/viff/2019/media/15_VIFF2019ClosingAwards_MR.html
  7. ↑ http://www.unaff.org/2019/f_ResistanceFighters.html
  8. ↑ https://pariscience.fr/session/antibiotiques-la-fin-dun-miracle/
  9. ↑ Palmarès 2019 | Pariscience Festival. In: Festival Pariscicence. Retrieved on March 4, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  10. ↑ Globa347_wp: Serving documentary filmmakers IMPACTING the world. Retrieved March 4, 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ Screening Schedule 2020 | DHAKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Retrieved March 4, 2020 (American English).
  12. ^ Dutch Global Health Film Festival. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  13. ^ Resistance Fighters. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  14. ↑ AFO: COMPETITION 2020. In: AFO. Retrieved March 4, 2020 (UK English).
  15. ↑ ГЛАВНАЯ. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .