Cleveland, 1916. An inventor has spent years testing a breathing device on himself in smoke-filled rooms, sitting in fume-filled tents for thirty or forty minutes at a time, risking his life to prove that what he built actually works. When an explosion traps dozens of workers 250 feet beneath Lake Erie and every trained responder turns back, Garrett Morgan puts on the hood and goes in alone. He comes out with survivors. He goes back in. The city holds a celebration and does not print his name.
Standing in Fire is an intimate, urgent biographical drama about faith, invention, and the cost of being extraordinary in a country that refuses to see you. Written and directed by Philip M. Musey and produced in Cleveland on the 110th anniversary of Morgan's rescue, the film is the feature adaptation of The Inventor, an award-winning, proof-of-concept short film that screened at 15 festivals, was licensed to AMC Networks, and returned five times its budget. Your contribution puts this story on screen where it belongs.
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