From the Creators of
‘The Bias Trap’ and ‘Sick – The Battle Against HG’

The Unequal Pandemic

How COVID-19 exposed deep structural
inequalities across the UK

A short film that lays bare the long-term institutional, societal and governmental failures that led to one of the highest excess covid death rates in the developed world. Family testimonies and startling evidence reveal how we were not all in it together. It asks how can we can build a fairer society for all, ready for when the next pandemic comes.

‘Living in a deprived area of the North East is worse for your health than living in a similarly deprived areas in London, to the extent that life expectancy is nearly five years less.’

The Marmot Review 2020

‘We suffered the world’s 6th worst death toll, despite being rated highly on the Global Health Security Index’

Prof. Clare Bambra

‘By five years of age, UK children are, on average, 7cm shorter than children in the Netherlands’

BMJ 2017 – Y Lu, A Pearce, L Li

Life expectancy is 11.1 years lower for men and 8.9 years lower for women in the most deprived areas of Liverpool than in the least deprived.

Public Health England 2020

‘By 2019, prior to the pandemic, the UK had more food banks than McDonalds outlets.’

Based on figures by Food Aid Network and the Trussell Trust

During Covid, men of Black African heritage had 3-4 times the mortality rate related to Covid compared with white men.’

ONS 2020

The Team

Debbie Abrahams

Executive Producer

Debbie is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, and a former public health consultant and academic, as well as a former Chair of an NHS Trust. Her work in inequalities led her into politics to ‘focus upstream’. As the Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth, she chairs a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups including ‘Health in All Policies’.

Phil Webb

Co Producer

With a career spanning the music industry, publishing, architecture and design, Phil commissions and produces short films and feature documentaries. As well as The Unequal Pandemic, Phil is currently producing Chasing The Sun, a film about the power of the bicycle to help save the planet.

Lorne Guy

Co Producer / Director

An award-winning Producer Director with expertise in documentary, drama, commercial and animation. Lorne’s scripted films have won awards around the world including the LA International Shorts, Sony Film competition winner, New York Indie shorts and a Royal Television Society award winner for factual production.

Jake Hawkins

DP

Jake is an internationally distributed film maker and DP with roots in broadcast and feature film production. He studied documentary film making and now also enjoys supporting the next generation of talent as a university lecturer in film production.

Andy Fosberry

Film music composer

Andy’s cinematic and atmospheric music scores can be heard across feature films, commercials and documentaries. A multi-instrumentalist his emotive music composition is featured on projects for the BBC, Channel 4 and NBC. His latest work is to be seen in several horror esq feature films.

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