Filmmaker Matthew Heineman captured the battle against the virus from the front lines of a New York City hospital inundated with patients in the chaotic early days of the pandemic.
What was the spark that made you say, “I need to make this movie right now”?
When watching the movie, it’s important to realize how far we’ve come. At that point, we knew so little about the virus, how it spread and how it was contracted. We used the best available science at the time to develop safety protocols, but at the end of the day we were still filming in an ICU, in an ER, as people were getting intubated. We basically mimicked what doctors and nurses were doing. We didn’t walk in the hospital with big hazmat suits. We wore scrubs and tried to blend in.
, we needed a very, very small footprint. We operated in shifts and two-person teams, often just one camera in a room at a given time. We tried to be part of the fabric of the daily lives of our participants in the film, and obviously the hospital itself. There’s no question that there were some growing pains in the first week. Trust is an access that is earned, not given.
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