A follow-up to his acclaimed, Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award-winning film The Waiting Room (Independent Lens, 2013), Pete Nicks’ The Force is part of a trilogy of films he’s making which are ostensibly about Oakland, where he’s based, but in a much larger sense are also about wholly American institutions — a hospital emergency room (and …
The Waiting Room: Online Screening and Chat
In his new Independent Lens documentary The Waiting Room (premiering on PBS Monday night 10/21 at 10 PM), Peter Nicks presents a more intimate portrait of a debate so entrenched in Washington and around the nation that Congress just narrowly missed a self-inflicted shutdown over it. In true vérité format, The Waiting Room offers a non-partisan …
The Waiting Room Bonus Videos: More People, More Perspectives
A collection of bonus clips via The Waiting Room filmmaker Peter Nicks and his “Storytelling Project,” featuring more hospital staff and patients on their experiences with health and health care, to accompany the feature documentary premiering on PBS on October 21.
The Waiting Room Makes Washington Post 2012 Top-10 Film List!
Independent Lens films continue to pile up incredible accolades and awards this month. The latest: The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday just came out with her list of the top 10 films of 2012, and The Waiting Room ranked No. 3 – above even Argo and Anna Karenina! We are so proud of filmmaker Peter Nicks …