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Plum Health DPC Featured in Upcoming Alive in Detroit Documentary
Plum Health DPC Featured in Upcoming Alive in Detroit Documentary
Alive in Detroit is a documentary put together by my friend Shiraz Ahmed. He has been acutely interested in health access in Detroit and beyond and our mission of making health care affordable and accessible in Detroit resonated with Shiraz. Shiraz included our work in a forthcoming documentary about health care in Detroit called Alive in Detroit. He’s raising money for the film right now on his Kickstarter campaign, so please contribute if you have the time and the means as this will be a timely and insightful documentary.
Shiraz was recently interviewed on WDET here in Detroit to explain more about the project. Here’s what WDET said:
“Alive in Detroit,” directed by filmmaker Shiraz Ahmed, is an upcoming feature-length documentary about the fight against chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes in the city. This story is a celebration of Detroiters and the work they do to heal their communities of illnesses while also providing them with protection and rights.
The film features a patient, a pastor and a physician whose stories inspire hope but also mask deeper inequities in the health care safety net. It’s a product of the city’s creative ecosystem, benefitting from programming by the Detroit Design Festival, the Freep Film Festival and Documenting Detroit.
“The pandemic’s really exposed all these cracks we have in our system,” he says. “I started this film before the pandemic, and then the pandemic just crystalized the themes I was looking at. It really gave me motivation – especially at a really depressing time when there was not a lot else to do to keep moving forward – because if we don’t address these inequities, another pandemic will happen and more people will keep dying.”