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Clínica de migrantes / HBO Documentary Films ; produced by Jenny Lim and Maxim Pozdorovkin ; directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin.

[New York] : HBO Documentary Films, [2016]

New York : Films Media Group, [2018]

©2018

1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin (HBO's Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) shines a well-deserved light on Puentes de Salud, a health-care clinic serving a population that all-too-easily slips through the cracks: undocumented immigrants. Clínica de Migrantes counters the often dehumanizing and highly politicized rhetoric surrounding America's immigrant population, providing a compassionate profile of patients at Puentes, many of whom have left their families behind to come to America and perform physically exhausting labor for meager wages. Poverty-stricken and without medical insurance, the patients at Puentes often have nowhere else to turn for medical care. In addition to the patients, the film follows the tireless clinic staffers who treat around ten thousand patients each year with limited space and even less funding. As it plans a larger facility to accommodate its rapidly increasing demand, Puentes' executive director Dr. Steve Larson and his team must find a way to keep their practice running in spite of obstacles at every turn. Highlighting the admirable doctors, their patients and the bonds built between them, this inspirational, thought-provoking film forces us to consider whether America can continue to keep basic necessities from the estimated eleven million undocumented immigrants living within its borders.--Container.

Rated: TV14.

Migrant labor -- Health and hygiene -- United States.

Foreign workers -- United States -- Social conditions.

Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.

Health services accessibility.

Documentary films.

Lim, Jennie, film producer.

Pozdorovkin, Maxim, film producer, film director.

HBO Documentary Films, production company.

Films Media Group, film distributor.

Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), film distributor.

Originally released by HBO Documentary Films in 2016.

Films Media Group on container and disc, Films for the Humanities & Sciences on menu screen.

Wide screen (16:9).

Director of photography, Joe Bender ; editing, Jeanne Applegate, Joe Bender ; original music, Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman.

DVD-R, wide screen (16:9) presentation; Dolby digital 2.0

In English and Spanish with English subtitles.

Clínica de Migrantes: Introduction (4:03); Borrowing facilities (4:06); Weekly prenatal care (3:31); Monthly staff meeting (3:22); New patient (3:50); Fundraising (4:05); Facility construction (5:57); Living in the shadows (3:36); Saying goodbye (5:49); Credits: Clínica de Migrantes (1:30).

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