The Waiting Room Movie
After receiving life changing diagnoses two women learn courage is more than skin deep in the waiting room premiering october 17 at 98c.
The waiting room movie. The waiting room is a 2012 documentary film and social media project directed by peter nicks that follows the life and times of patients doctors and staff at highland hospital a safety net hospital in oakland california. Dark claustrophobic and unusually woven the waiting room is an independent production by avmovies world directed by alexander leontaritis and starring andreas vougioukas tonia sotiropoulou panos kranidiotis maria ioannou charis georgiades and leonidas kossis. Two complete strangers anna and stephen are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. The waiting room is a riveting look at a public hospitalos overtaxed er in oakland california.
The waiting room is a character driven documentary film that uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an american public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge whats going on in their different relationships and make hard but positive decisions for themselves.