Five years in the making, Superbug is an urgent, eye-opening, gut-wrenching piece of international importance. It will tell the story of how humanity gained a wonder cure – antibiotics – the guarantor of modern medicine, and now has almost lost it.
Deploying Amos Pictures’ award-winning, cinematic storytelling techniques combined with months of intensely immersive location filming, Superbug will transport our audience to the heart of this global emergency’s frontline, in hospitals all around the world where antibiotic resistance is putting patients’ lives in danger and imperilling modern medicine itself. The locations include Bangladesh, Pakistan, Italy, Greece, Colombia, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine, the USA and the UK.
There’s no single ‘thing’ that we can say “if we fix this, we’re good”. Instead, many interconnected things shape the Superbug story. The film will take audiences on a journey that connects the past, the present and the future, dazzling with drama, pathos, excitement, emotion and illumination.
Together with an impact campaign, it is anticipated that Superbug will raise awareness and inspire action for change that just might save these precious miracle drugs for future generations.