SHADOWS IN SUNLIGHT is inspired by the legacy of John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins, who were awarded jointly the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue. In 1941, Enders, Robbins and Weller succeeded in culturing the virus that causes polio in human muscle and tissue in a laboratory setting. This became an important step on the road toward a vaccine against polio. It is in the spirit of this legacy that courageous women like Ishrat and many others take to the streets, risking their own safety to vaccinate young children in their communities. Nobel Prize Outreach’s mission is to inspire change guided by Alfred Nobel’s vision to work “for the greatest benefit to humankind”. They do this by developing ambitious national and international outreach activities to disseminate knowledge on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements and to engage and inspire people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times, through various creative initiatives, which includes their support of documentaries.
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In the backstreets of the ancient city of Peshawar in North East Pakistan, a team of armed security guards gather in the morning light. Their mission is to protect Ishrat Rahim and her female colleagues - health workers on a mission to vaccinate the city’s children against Polio. Ishrat is one of almost 400,000 women working across Pakistan and if she and her team can succeed, it could finally rid the world of this dreaded disease.
The film has been an official selection at:
- HollyShorts International Film Festival
- Silbersalz Film Festival
- Tasveer International Film Festival
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
End Polio
"Since 1994, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme has been fighting to end the crippling poliovirus from the country. The initiative is driven by up to 400,000 trained and dedicated polio workers, the largest surveillance network in the world, quality data collection and analysis, behavioral change communication, state of the art laboratories, and some of the best epidemiologists and public health experts in Pakistan and the world....."