The Waiting Room Pbs

This discussion guide is designed as a tool to facilitate dialogue and deepen understanding of the complex issues in the film the waiting room.

The waiting room pbs. Discussion guide the waiting room 3 community cinema is a rare public forum. A space for people to gather who are connected by a love of stories and a belief in their power to change the world. Peter nicks earned his masters in documentary filmmaking from the university of california berkeley in 1999. The film using a blend of cinema verite and characters voiceover offers a raw intimate and even uplifting look at how patients staff and caregivers each cope with disease bureaucracy and hard choices.

The waiting room is a riveting look behind the doors of a public hospitals overtaxed emergency room in oakland california. It is also an invitation to not only. About film lounge through a compilation of shorts and interviews celebrate the work of iowa filmmakers become acquainted with the regions vibrant film communities and explore film as an art form. The waiting rooms 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 patients.

In this excerpt from the independent lens documentary the waiting room patients in the waiting room of oaklands highland hospital er share their stories of their struggles within the american. Season 14 episode 19 30s the waiting room intimately follows several people who pass through the emergency room of highland hospital in east oakland ca. The waiting room is a cinema verite portrait of one california citys public safety net hospital as it struggles to handle patient overload in a swooning economy and a constantly shifting landscape. The waiting room is a 2015 film by paul berge based on a radio play that captures the comedic hopelessness of dealing with authority.