Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

A film by Matthew Heineman & Susan Froemke

The fight to rescue american healthcare

ESCAPE FIRE examines the powerful forces maintaining the status quo, a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. This film follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military.

It’s about finding a way out. It’s about saving the health of a nation.

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Director

Matthew Heineman & Susan Froemke

Producer

Susan Froemke and Matthew Heineman

Runtime

99 Minutes

Rights Represented

Educational Rights

Captions Available

English Closed Captions (available upon request)

Language

English

Press

“A elucidating must see! The healthcare debate’s An Inconvenient Truth.”

- The Village Voice

“There are some genuinely harrowing moments, including a hair-raising journey on an Air Force plane transporting wounded soldiers. A surprisingly thorough, touching look at a tough subject.”

- New York Magazine
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Festival & Awards

Official Selection – SUNDANCE Film Festival
Official Selection – SILVERDOCS Film Festival

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