Follow the intellectual and emotional journey of a group of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the new PBS documentary “The Calling: A Medical School Journey”. Captured through verité scenes and personal video diaries, the film offers an inside look at America’s healthcare system through the eyes of these aspiring practitioners as they learn what it takes to become a doctor in one of the country’s most underserved communities. On this episode I speak with the filmmaker Asako Gladsjo and one of the medical students from her documentary, Shauna Phinazee. The film premieres on PBS Monday, March 17th.
From the DC/DOX film festival website: Asako Gladsjo is an award-winning documentary director, producer, and writer based in New York City. Her recent credits include the upcoming “Eyes on the Prize III” for HBO; “Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities”; “Why We Hate” for Discovery; “(Un)Well” for Netflix; “By Whatever Means Necessary”, for Epix; the PBS special “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise”; Soundtracks: “Songs that Made History” for CNN; and “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”, which won Emmy, DuPont, Peabody, and NAACP Image awards. She has directed and written documentaries on society, culture, race, and immigration for international broadcasters including Arte, BBC, and France Télévision. She teaches directing in the School of Visual Art’s MFA Program in Social Documentary.
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