“Doc Albany,” a short documentary by Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and the third installment in a film series highlighting the beneficial uses of technology, will world premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 8.
The film will screen at Shorts Theater at Spring Studio at 2:30 p.m.
The documentary delves into the medical community of Albany, Georgia. Dr. Jim Hotz is the founder of Albany Area Primary Health Care, a medical center where Dr. Sheena Favors works as an OB-GYN. Hotz had a hand in establishing the National Health Service Corps, a program from the Health Resources and Services Administration that assigns clinicians to communities in medical deserts and pays off their student debt. Favors served in Albany through the program and then stayed in the community.
“I was taken aback at how much of the United States is a medical desert and what a high percentage of rural counties don’t have access to healthcare and hospitals,” Proudfoot, whose credits include “The Last Repair Shop” and “The Queen of Basketball,” told Variety.
“When I found out about the National Health Service Corps, I just thought that was an amazing program, an amazing solve to a difficult problem,” he added.
The documentary is the final project in the Impact Films initiative, a three-part series by Publicis Sapient that highlights the stories of people whose lives are affected by the technology systems that the company develops or improves for its clients. The previous films in the series, created with Proudfoot’s Breakwater Studios, were “Never Done” and “Forgiving Johnny.”
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