Some of the doctors who feature in Black Women In Medicine Photo: Crystal Emery
Crystal Emery, founder of social justice focused production company Uru: The Right To Be and director of The Deadliest Disease In America, which focuses on racism in medicine, wasn't looking to make another documentary when, on routine hospital visits, she encountered doctors who didn't fit the stereotype associated with the profession. It happened, she says, "By God's grace. I was not looking to do a film about black women, but I met these women and I felt that their story should be told."
Crystal Emery, producer, writer and director of Black Women In Medicine Photo: Bwim
That story would become Black Women In Medicine, which has its television première on American Public Television's World Channel on February 8. The story behind it is equally fascinating. Crystal was optimistic when she started out, confident that other people...
Crystal Emery, founder of social justice focused production company Uru: The Right To Be and director of The Deadliest Disease In America, which focuses on racism in medicine, wasn't looking to make another documentary when, on routine hospital visits, she encountered doctors who didn't fit the stereotype associated with the profession. It happened, she says, "By God's grace. I was not looking to do a film about black women, but I met these women and I felt that their story should be told."
Crystal Emery, producer, writer and director of Black Women In Medicine Photo: Bwim
That story would become Black Women In Medicine, which has its television première on American Public Television's World Channel on February 8. The story behind it is equally fascinating. Crystal was optimistic when she started out, confident that other people...
- 2/4/2017
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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