An official selection at over 100 leading film festivals which was honoured with major awards and accolades worldwide,[2] Fire in the Blood altered the global conversation around access to essential medicine, and in 2018 was named one of "26 landmark documentary films of the past seven decades" in a major retrospective curated by legendary documentarian John Pilger.
[3] Dylan directed Netflix's first Indian-themed non-fiction original film, The King of Good Times (2020), about the spectacular rise and fall of controversial Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya and his ill-fated venture, Kingfisher Airlines.
[9][10] His narrative feature script, The Last Day of Winter (co-written with Vikramaditya Motwane), was incubated at the Sundance Institute | Mumbai Mantra Screenwriting Lab.
[11] Born on Prince Edward Island off Canada's Atlantic coast, where his biologist father served as a national park warden, Gray grew up with a keen interest in theatre, first as a child actor, then later moving into writing and directing plays, followed soon thereafter by videos (often using equipment borrowed from school sports programs).
He would go on to serve in various key capacities (often credited as "D. Dylan Gray") on international feature films in over thirty countries worldwide, working in close collaboration with numerous acclaimed directors including Fatih Akin, Peter Greenaway, Paul Greengrass, Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair.