Lives hang in the balance in Lenox Hill, a nine-part Netflix documentary series that offers a rare and gripping look inside a big-city hospital.
Neurosurgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, ER doc Mirtha Macri and Ob-gyn chief resident Amanda Little-Richardson devote themselves to patient care and also try to maintain a semblance of a personal life in the series executive produced and directed by filmmaking couple Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.
“They have a very meticulous job that is strenuous and very hard and they are behind those curtains and nobody really sees the heroic [work] and the sacrifice that they are making,” Shatz explained during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary +Unscripted awards-season event. “We just realized that there is a whole world that is not being shown.”
Hipaa laws make it very difficult to film in a medical setting, but Barash and Shatz obtained consent from numerous patients.
“I think people want to be seen…...
Neurosurgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, ER doc Mirtha Macri and Ob-gyn chief resident Amanda Little-Richardson devote themselves to patient care and also try to maintain a semblance of a personal life in the series executive produced and directed by filmmaking couple Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.
“They have a very meticulous job that is strenuous and very hard and they are behind those curtains and nobody really sees the heroic [work] and the sacrifice that they are making,” Shatz explained during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary +Unscripted awards-season event. “We just realized that there is a whole world that is not being shown.”
Hipaa laws make it very difficult to film in a medical setting, but Barash and Shatz obtained consent from numerous patients.
“I think people want to be seen…...
- 5/1/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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