EXCLUSIVE: Distributor Syndicado has acquired worldwide rights to the acclaimed Covid-themed documentary The Curve: 90 Days That Changed America, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Adam Benzine.…
Benzine, a British-born writer-director based in Toronto, earned an Academy Award nomination for his 2016 short documentary“I’m thrilled to be working with Greg and the team at Syndicado to launchglobally,” Benzine said. “I had hoped that by fall 2021, this would have become an historical documentary. But with more than 100,000new Covid [as of October 25] cases per day in the U.S., it has sadly become more important and more relevant than ever.”.
One of those experts is Dr. Ali Khan, former director of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.“We never had good visibility on where disease was in the United States and how it was spreading, and that’s because we never had good testing,” Dr. Khan comments in the documentary. “I call that the original sin.”
In the period covered in the documentary, the U.S. went from zero Covid cases to 29,000 deaths from the disease. Benzine examines faulty decision-making that left the U.S. vulnerable to a pandemic even before President Trump took office. But“There’s no getting around the fact that he [was] America’s chief executive, and he viewed acknowledgement of the pandemic and its effects as being an inherent criticism of himself and his job performance,” Benzine told Deadline earlier this year.
The filmmaking team crowdfunded the documentary in 2020, raising more than $50,000 through Kickstarter. Benzine wrote, produced and directed. Toronto-based production company Jet Black Iris produced. Tiffany Beaudin edited the doc; Emmy-winner Joel Goodman composed the score. Miller Thomson LLP partner Divya Shahani executive produced.
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