Dylan Mohan Gray

Gray is a Mumbai-based award winning film director and writer, famous for his documentary titled Fire in the Blood. He was born in 1969 in Prince Edward Island, Canada, to a Punjabi father and German mother. He and his sister Anna were both adopted. He was a student of History and Film at Dartmouth College. He went on to get a degree from the University of Vienna and the Budapest University of Economics. He also holds a graduate degree in history from Central European University and the University of the State of New York Click to look into! >> Read More... with research on historiography and geographic dimensions of identity. As is plain from his credentials, he was studying to become an academician, but an encounter with an old theatre colleague pushed him towards movie making. According to him, ‘love’ is what brought him to India. He owns the production house called Sparkwater. He has worked in various countries and collaborated with directors of international fame, including Mira Nair Mira Nair, a veteran Filmmaker, based in New York >> Read More... , Paul Greengrass PAUL GREEN GRASS is an American Producer, Director >> Read More... , Deepa Mehta Deepa Mehta makes such pretty movies, when watchin >> Read More... , etc. He has worked in other films such as The Namesake Click to look into! >> Read More... and The Bourne Supremacy.

He has also interviewed international figures such as Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu. He is the recipient of many awards - Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Award for Best Debut Film for a Director at the 2014 Mumbai International Film Festival for "Fire in the Blood" (2013); Golden Award for Excellence in Notification(direction), Silver Award for Excellence in Notification(Script), Jury Award for Best Film: Documentary( 2015); and many other awards like Best Feature Documentary Award in Montreal International Black Film Festival(2014); Grand Jury Award at the White Sands International Film Festival, New Mexico(2014); Best Documentary Award at the Kashmir Film Festival (2014); Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 16th Fairy Tale International Queer Film Festival(2014); Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Prize for Political Film at Filmfest Hamburg(2013); DOXA Feature Documentary Award in Vancouver(2013); and Justice Matters Award at the International Film Festival(2013) in Washington. Besides these, there are numerous other nominations as well. He has been featured in publications by some of the leading News channels and magazines across the globe. Gray is a social activist who keeps working for the betterment of society, regularly coming up with critical thoughts on government policies, with extra focus on the international pharmaceutical industry.

He has traveled around the world a lot and made movies on the experiences of peoples and their cultures. History is a major ingredient in his scripts. His movie Fire in the Blood holds the record for the longest theatrical run by a non-fiction feature film in the history of Indian cinema. The movie is a story about how big pharmaceutical companies in the US, for the sake of profits and market, blocked cheap AIDS medication in poverty-stricken countries of Africa and Asia in 1996. This action, at the hands of the Pharmaceutical companies caused more than 10 million deaths. He did not plan on making this movie initially. He was shooting for another film in Sri Lanka about four years ago when he felt motivated for making this one. He ended up traveling to four continents for the shooting of this film. Other movies made by him include Hector and the Search for Happiness and a TV series titled Democracy Now! Right now Gray is working on releasing Fire in the Blood in 25 places in the UK and more than an appraisal for his direction, he hopes that the movie brings more notice to what he calls the ‘crime of the century’ and generates awareness.