FINE
A Feature Documentary
WE WERE
FINE.
Every day across the rural South, Black Americans are having strokes that never had to happen. The fix is a $30 monitor and a $4 pill. Nobody is making it happen. Nobody is even talking about it.
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70yr
Unchanged
The Stroke Belt has existed for seven decades. Georgia's stroke death rates run 30–40% above the national average.
3×
The Disparity
Black Americans face three times the stroke risk of white Americans in peak productive years. Widest in the South.
$54K
Cost of One Stroke
The same money protects 150 people through remote monitoring and medication. Rural hospitals are closing.
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"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane."
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1966 · The data still agrees.
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The Crisis
A preventable catastrophe hiding in plain sight. The data, the disparity, and seventy years of silence. This is what we found.
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Have you or someone you love been affected by stroke or lack of healthcare access in the rural South? Your story could be in this film.
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About This Film
A population health expert who went looking for answers and found an alarm going off for seventy years with no one in the room.
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