Directors/Producers: Anna Moot-Levin, Laura
Green, Jamie Meltzer, Sally Jo Fifer
Description:
Set
against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in
rural America, film follows three healthcare providers in northern
New Mexico. They work at El Centro, a group of safety-net clinics
that offer care to all who walk through the doors, regardless of
ability to pay. Amidst personal struggles that reflect those of their
patients, the journeys of the providers unfold as they work to reach
rural Americans who would otherwise be left out of the healthcare
system.
Biography: Laura Green is a
documentary director and editor based in San Francisco. She has
directed, produced and edited five short documentaries, which played
at numerous festivals, including Palm Springs Shortfest, Aspen
Shortsfest, Sarasota Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and
Outfest. She edited True Son as well as the ITVS-funded
documentary web-series The F Word.
Anna Moot-Levin has
directed, produced, shot and edited several films, including the
award-winning film Track by Track which premiered at
Slamdance. Her work has been screened at festivals around the world
including The American Pavilion at Cannes and the AFI/Discovery
Channel Silverdocs Film Festival. She is also an associate producer
of the Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job and editor
of The Making of Gabrieli.
Jamie Meltzer is a
documentary filmmaker whose films have been broadcast nationally on
PBS and screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. They include Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story, Welcome to Nollywood, La Caminata, Informant and True Conviction which
recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sally Jo Fifer since
taking the helm in 2001, Fifer has piloted ITVS through major
programmatic expansion, launching the primetime Emmy Award-winning
PBS series Independent Lens and the organization’s first
international venture, the Global Perspectives Project, which
funded over 140 international independent documentary films for U.S.
broadcast and digital distribution and distributed American films to
over 100 million viewers in two dozen countries.
