ACADEMY
AWARD® SHORT
LISTED DOCUMENTARY
“LIVING
IN
EMERGENCY: STORIES OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS”
OPENS
THEATRICALLY ON JUNE 4th
DISTRIBUTED
BY BEV PICTURES
Feature-Length
Doc
to Debut in Exclusive Theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia,
San
Francisco, Boston & Washington, D.C.
New York (April 14, 2010) –
LIVING IN EMERGENCY: STORIES OF DOCTORSWITHOUT
BORDERS opens theatrically on June 4, 2010 in six markets at
exclusive theaters: New York at Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Los Angeles at
the
Laemmle Music Hall, Philadelphia at the Ritz at the Bourse, San
Francisco at
the Lumiere Theatre, Boston at the Kendall Square Cinema, and
Washington, D.C.
at the Landmark E Street Cinema.
The feature-length documentary is distributed by BEV Pictures. During
the
nomination process for the 82nd Academy Awards® earlier this
year, LIVING IN EMERGENCY
was among the 15
documentaries selected for the shortlist by the Documentary Branch of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Directed
by Mark N. Hopkins (producer of “Going Upriver: The Long War of John
Kerry”), LIVING IN EMERGENCY
provides a rare inside look into the Nobel Peace Prize-winning
international
medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF), which for the first time granted a documentary film
crew
unlimited and unprecedented access to its field operations.
“It
was amazing to witness first-hand the dedication, talent, bravery and
personal
sacrifice exhibited by the people who work at Doctors Without Borders,”
said Hopkins.
“As a filmmaker, it’s an honor to tell their stories and I am
thrilled that audiences will now have the chance to experience it for
themselves.”
“’Living in
Emergency’ captures the hard choices, dilemmas, and, sometimes, bitter
realities that Doctors Without Borders medical teams grapple with every
day in
nearly 70 countries around the world,” said Sophie Delaunay, executive
director of Doctors Without Borders-USA.
About
The Film:
LIVING IN EMERGENCY: STORIES
OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
workers with Doctors Without Borders as they struggle to provide
emergency medical
care under the most extreme conditions. Two of the doctors are new
recruits: a
26 year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an
American
surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a
shattered
capital city. Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of
Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under
control, and
an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out. Amid
the
chaos, each doctor must confront the severe challenges of the work, the
tough
choices, and test the limits of their own idealism.
LIVING IN EMERGENCY
is a Red Floor Pictures
Production directed by
Mark N. Hopkins and produced by Hopkins, Naisola Grimwood and Daniel Holton-Roth. 90
minutes. Not
yet rated. For more information, visit www.livinginemergency.com.
About Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF):
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) is
an international independent medical
humanitarian organization that
delivers emergency aid to
people whose survival is threatened by violence, negligence, or
catastrophe,
primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural
disasters,
and exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries. For more
information,
visit
