Thu February 20, 2014
We Are Alive! The Fight to Save Braddock Hospital, Tony Buba, Tom Dubensky (U.S., 2013)
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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In Person/Tony Buba
When the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) decided to close the Braddock Hospital, the community responded in force. This account of their spirited two-and-a-half-year struggle, captured in cinema verité footage, features demonstrations, protest songs written to the tune of their struggle, and meetings with double-talking politicians. Ultimately, the dying Braddock and surrounding area wasn’t generating the kind of money—or patients—the management wanted. At the same time the citizens of Braddock were advocating for health care as a human right, UPMC was making billions of dollars in profit. Winner of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism.
• Photographed by Maranda Wodzinski. (67 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
Preceded by
Voices From A Steeltown
(Tony Buba, U.S., 1983) New Print!
Braddock citizens—who have no political illusions—tell of their town’s demise while Buba visually re-creates its past and its present. (28 mins, Color/B&W, 16mm, From the artist)
Total running time: 95 mins
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When the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) decided to close the Braddock Hospital, the community responded in force. This account of their spirited two-and-a-half-year struggle, captured in cinema verité footage, features demonstrations, protest songs written to the tune of their struggle, and meetings with double-talking politicians. Ultimately, the dying Braddock and surrounding area wasn’t generating the kind of money—or patients—the management wanted. At the same time the citizens of Braddock were advocating for health care as a human right, UPMC was making billions of dollars in profit. Winner of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism.
• Photographed by Maranda Wodzinski. (67 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
Preceded by
Voices From A Steeltown
(Tony Buba, U.S., 1983) New Print!
Braddock citizens—who have no political illusions—tell of their town’s demise while Buba visually re-creates its past and its present. (28 mins, Color/B&W, 16mm, From the artist)
Total running time: 95 mins
In Person/Tony Buba
When the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) decided to close the Braddock Hospital, the community responded in force. This account of their spirited two-and-a-half-year struggle, captured in cinema verité footage, features demonstrations, protest songs written to the tune of their struggle, and meetings with double-talking politicians. Ultimately, the dying Braddock and surrounding area wasn’t generating the kind of money—or patients—the management wanted. At the same time the citizens of Braddock were advocating for health care as a human right, UPMC was making billions of dollars in profit. Winner of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism.
• Photographed by Maranda Wodzinski. (67 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
Preceded by
Voices From A Steeltown
(Tony Buba, U.S., 1983) New Print!
Braddock citizens—who have no political illusions—tell of their town’s demise while Buba visually re-creates its past and its present. (28 mins, Color/B&W, 16mm, From the artist)
Total running time: 95 mins
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When the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) decided to close the Braddock Hospital, the community responded in force. This account of their spirited two-and-a-half-year struggle, captured in cinema verité footage, features demonstrations, protest songs written to the tune of their struggle, and meetings with double-talking politicians. Ultimately, the dying Braddock and surrounding area wasn’t generating the kind of money—or patients—the management wanted. At the same time the citizens of Braddock were advocating for health care as a human right, UPMC was making billions of dollars in profit. Winner of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism.
• Photographed by Maranda Wodzinski. (67 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)
Preceded by
Voices From A Steeltown
(Tony Buba, U.S., 1983) New Print!
Braddock citizens—who have no political illusions—tell of their town’s demise while Buba visually re-creates its past and its present. (28 mins, Color/B&W, 16mm, From the artist)
Total running time: 95 mins
show less
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Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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