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Iʼve raised £2,653 to HELP SOHRAB TO SUBMIT ‘DUCHENNE BOYS’ TO MORE FESTIVALS AND SCREEN IT AROUND THE WORLD
- Stroud, uk
- Funded on Monday, 5th April 2021
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Story
Thanks to all the support so far, 'Duchenne Boys' within the first few months of its festival circuit has won eight awards. This epic documentary has been Sohrab Kavir's labour of love for the last 12 years and now he needs one more push to submit his film to more festivals and travel with 'Duchenne Boys' to raise awareness about this devastating disease that claimed the lives of three of bis brothers.
You can contact Sohrab Kavir on WhatsApp: 00447766356685 Email: sohrabkavir@gmail.com
Synopsis
"Duchenne Boys" is the first feature documentary by Sohrab Kavir, a British-Iranian filmmaker and the founder of "Duchenne Boys", the biggest online platform within the community in the world. Sohrab grew up in a family where Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a male-specific muscle-wasting disease, took the lives of his three brothers. Riddled by guilt about his survival, Kavir felt compelled to try to improve the lives of Duchenne sufferers especially the ones in Iran.
On his journey of discovery, Kavir meets Matin, a young British-Iranian with Duchenne disease, who plays power wheelchair-football in the English Powerchair League. Matin inspires Kavir to attempt the seemingly impossible - to create an Iranian football team from boys with Duchenne and organise an international match with Matin's team from England. But this will be no ordinary Powerchair match. Two teams of wheelchair-bound players will face each other online - in the first-ever international cyber football match. For Kavir it becomes a remarkable act of self-redemption.
"Duchenne Boys" was edited by the award-winning Hayedeh Safirai who previously edited the Oscar-winning "A Separation (2012)" and the Oscar-winning "The Salesman (2017)".
"Duchenne Boys" is a candid and highly personal film about Duchenne boys and Persia, whose story offers hope and inspiration to sufferers of a disease about which the director, Sohrab Kavir, knows only too much.
Duchenne Boys campaign page on Instagram; https://instagram.com/duchenneboys?igshid=1k1vwovxwas0r
Duchenne Boys Facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=duchenne%20boys
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- 4 years ago
Sohrab Kavir
4 years agoDear friends and supporters, sadly we ran out of time here, but if you'd like to still help us out in regards to this cause please contact me directly on; sohrabkavir@gmail.com Thanks a lot, Sohrab Kavir
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- 4 years ago
Sohrab Kavir
4 years agoThank you everyone for all the love and supports, we’ve just hit 5% of our target 🎉🎊🎈. We’re now more than ever energised to make these innocent boys heard by the world! Please don’t forget to share our campaign with your friends on your social media 💖
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74
Anonymous
Mar 20, 2021
£5.00
Sofia
Mar 13, 2021
For our boys ❤️
£20.00
Katie Kilgore
Mar 6, 2021
my brother has Duchenne! I'm a filmmaker as well and I think these stories are so important to tell. Hats off to you and thank you so much for telling this story.
£20.00
Anonymous
Mar 6, 2021
Anonymous
Feb 24, 2021
Good luck with the project Sohrab!
Nadeem
Feb 14, 2021
All the best wishes
£40.00
Anonymous
Feb 2, 2021
£5.00
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Sohrab Kavir
Stroud, uk
Sohrab was brought up in a family of modest means in Iran, watching helplessly as his brothers succumbed to Duchenne. In 2003, he came to the UK to study filmmaking and not let his brothers die in vain. Finally, in 2021 after 12 years of production, 'Duchenne Boys' was completed.