INSIDE THE GREAT VACCINE RACE
Part thriller, part personal drama, Inside The Great Vaccine Race is the powerful story of the high stakes mission to save millions of lives, a mission that continues with more than 4 billion people still to receive a single shot. This gripping documentary launches the 61st season of CBC’s The Nature of Things.
Inside The Great Vaccine Race is also a chronicle of the remarkable personal journey of the scientists who sacrificed everything to produce one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in the last 100 years.
In Canada, Dr. Alyson Kelvin will leave her family behind to work on a vaccine. She won’t see them for months. In Germany, Prof Uğur Şahin and his wife, Dr. Özlem Türeci risk their company to create the world’s first RNA vaccine. Within a year, the whole world will know their names.
In China, Dr. Xuefeng Yu is backed by the military. In just 50 days his company will be winning the race. And, in the U.K., Dr. Jonathan Heeney is chasing the Holy Grail – a vaccine that protects against multiple coronaviruses.
Inside The Great Vaccine Race was filmed over a year while the coronavirus ravaged the world. It follows the unfolding pandemic in real time and reveals how every new crisis increases the pressure on each team. From news that the virus has shut down Wuhan, to the moment BioNTech succeeds, it captures in intimate detail this quest to achieve the impossible.
From the streets of Brazil to the bat caves of Thailand, from the biohazard labs of China to the high security vaccine facilities of Germany, this is the inside story of the race to save everyone on Earth.
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Written by
Dugald Maudsley
Director
P.J. Naworynski
Executive Producer
Dugald Maudsley
Editor
Cathy Gulkin
Composer
Michelle Osis
Location Director
Edward Davies (Brazil)
George Hupka (Saskatchewan, Canada)
Hongyu Liu (China)
Paul Olding (United Kingdom)
Julian Parkinson (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Kelly Wolfert (Alberta, Canada)
Director of Photography
Edward Davies (Brazil)
Rob Goldie (United Kingdom)
George Hupka csc (Saskatchewan, Canada)
Robert Killorn (Thailand)
Julian Parkinson (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Kelly Wolfert csc (Alberta, Canada)
Additional Camera
Julio Brunet (Brazil)
André Fancio (Brazil)
Florian Kitulski (Thailand)
Mark Lange (Germany)
Trevor Thoms (Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan)
Haining Zhang (China)
Sound Recordist
Luis Boggian (Brazil)
Martin Geismann (Thailand)
Carey Opper (Alberta)
Lauren Parkinson (Nova Scotia)
William Rudolph (United Kingdom)
Marcus Uhlmann (Germany)
Lanny Westgard (Saskatchewan)
Tracy Westgard (Saskatchewan)
Jianxi Zhang (China)
Field Assistant
Nic Fieldsend (Nova Scotia)
Ning Ren (China)
Braden Rooke (Alberta)
Sophie Smith (United Kingdom)
Researcher
Monika Delmos
Production Manager
Diane Marcotte
Production Supervisor
Eric Wiegand
Production Coordinator
Gillian Main
Visual Effects Designer
Mark Alberts
Post Production Supervisor/Online Editor
Eric Wiegand
Archive Producer
Elspeth Domville
Colourist
Ken MacNeil
Re-Recording Mixer
Grant Edmonds
SFX Editor
MaryAnn Icaro
Audio Editor
Marcus Gynne Neumann
Dialogue Mixer
Patience Bradford
Publicist
David McCaughna
Archival Material Courtesy of
ALISON BURN
DR. ALYSON KELVIN
ANALOGUE CANADA
ANAND RAMAYYA
AUDIOVISUAL LIBRARY, UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
DANNY ABRIEL
DR. BEN CHAN
BIONTECH SE
CANSINO BIOLOGICS INC.
CCTV
DEBBIE EYTON
ENTOS PHARMACEUTICAL
FT WEEKEND
GETTY IMAGES / NBC NEWS ARCHIVES
GLOBAL NEWS
HEATHER KEARNS
IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON
DR. JONATHAN HEENEY
ITV
JOURNEYMAN PICTURES LTD.
JUDE DILLABOUGH
KAREN VEINOT
KARMA FILM
KELLY BARRETT
MARK MACCHARLES
MIG VERWALTUNGS AG
NIMIA/ NINE NETWORK
PFIZER CANADA ULC
POND5/REUTERS
RON MENCHETTI
ROSANGELA TUPINELLI
DR. ROY DUNCAN
RUPTLY GMBH
STEPHAN SCHMELZER
TAMMY LLOYD
THOMAS HUNNEROTH
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
VIDO-INTERVAC
DR. VOLKER GERDTS
DR. XUEFENG YU
Special Thanks
Dr. Tania Watts, University of Toronto
Colette Wheler
Junhong Jing
CEPIC Research Centre
Chulalongkorn Hospital Thailand
Dalhousie University
Darwin College Cambridge
IWK Health Centre
Nikki Kelvin
Staybridge Suites Saskatoon
Tracey Thue
University of Alberta
University of Cambridge
VIDO-InterVac, University of Saskatchewan
For Infield Fly Productions
Producer
Gillian Main
Dugald Maudsley
Co-Producer
Monika Delmos
Production Accountant
Rebecca Humble McCulloch
Legal Counsel
David Steinberg
Produced with the participation of
Canada Media Fund
The Rogers Documentary Fund
Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
Produced with the Cooperation of
Writers Guild of Canada
Canadian Federation of Musicians
For the CBC
General Manager, Entertainment, Factual & Sports
Sally Catto
Executive Director, Unscripted Content
Jennifer Dettman
Senior Director, Documentary
Sandra Kleinfeld
Senior Director of Production, Unscripted Content
Alexandra Lane
Executive In Charge of Production
Sue Dando
The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Produced by
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
www.cbc.ca/natureofthings
@2021 IF: VH Productions Inc.
“produced in association with”
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Copyright 2021)
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