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The 25-minute featurette titled The Last Mile features interviews with Philadelphia cast members Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Mary Steenburgen, and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner, who reflect on the making of the film and how it helped shift cultural perceptions about HIV/AIDS from fear to compassion.
The Last Mile will premiere in Los Angeles and will then be available globally on streaming platforms including Amazon, iTunes, YouTube and Facebook. As part of World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) Philadelphia will be released in theaters in select cities and will debut on 4K Ultra HD on Nov. 27, marking the iconic film’s 25th anniversary.
“With this film, we hope to educate younger viewers about the AIDS epidemic and what it was like in the ‘90s,” said Anne Carelli, senior manager, Integrated Marketing Content,
The final frame of the featurette, which was directed by Kim Snyder, will include a link to a donation page at red.org/cocacola.
Last year, 1 million people died from AIDS, a completely treatable disease. Nearly 70 percent of people living with the preventable and treatable disease are in Sub-Saharan Africa. The film includes footage from Mozambique, with a focus on the Project Last Mile partnership between The
Viewers meet Veronica, a mother of six who rides her bike five miles round-trip – which takes about four hours – to pick up antiretroviral (ARV) and malaria medicines to deliver to her rural village of Quilimane, and Luisa, an HIV-positive woman who recently gave birth to an HIV-negative baby. Luisa is among the 22 million people living with HIV and accessing treatment.
Project Last Mile began in 2010 with a mission to transform the delivery of medical supplies in Tanzania in partnership with the local Ministry of Health. The initiative now supports communities in Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Liberia and eSwatini (formerly Swaziland).
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(RED) was founded in 2006 by Bono of U2 and Bobby Shriver with the mission to make it easy for people and businesses to join the fight against the deadly virus. In 2011,
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