Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

Our healthcare system is broken. Potent forces fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry created for quick fixes, rather than prevention; for profit-driven, rather than patient-driven, care. Healthcare is at the center of an intense political firestorm in our nation's capital. But the current battle over cost and access does not ultimately address the root of the problem: we have a disease-care system, not a health-care one. After decades of opposition, a movement to introduce innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing is finally gaining ground.

With consummate skill, filmmakers Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke interweave 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. Destined to be hailed as the definitive film on American healthcare, ESCAPE FIRE offers a way out—a primer on how to save the health of a nation. - D.C.

Annalee Paulo
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ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
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Matthew Heineman recently completed Our Time, a feature documentary about what it’s like to be young in America today. He has also directed a number of short films and commercials. Susan Froemke is a four‐time Emmy Award–winning director with more than 30 documentary films to her credit, from the classic Grey Gardens to Lalee’s Kin, an HBO film that won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and earned her an Academy Award nomination. The filmmakers first collaborated on the groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated HBO series, The Alzheimer’s Project

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