No Discount (working title: Alive in Detroit)

Logline: “Detroiters fight the odds to stay alive in a city marred by violence and crumbling health infrastructure. When a pandemic hits, a pastor, a patient and a physician force us to consider what is truly needed to make this community whole.”

Support from:

  • Detroit SOUP at Spaulding Community Fundraising Potluck (2018)

  • Freep Film Festival Works-in-Progress panel (2019

  • Detroit Art Week (2019)

  • Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Docs (2019)

  • Kartemquin Diverse Voices Accelerator Fund (2020)

  • Center for Asian American Media Social Change Fund (2020)

  • Islamic Scholarship Fund Film Grant (2022)

  • NBCu Original Voices Accelerator (2024)

  • Doc NYC Pitch Day (2024)

Team

  • Director/producer: Shiraz Ahmed

  • Producer/DP: Desmond Love

  • Associate Producer: Eleanore Catolico

  • Camera Operator: Myron Watkins