| Boston International Film Festival SESSION 38 Saturday, June 14, 1:30pm – 3:00pm This Much I Know – 24min In this video, a teenage girl struggles to define her life and her illness in a marginal, environmentally devastated neighborhood in Northern India. Inflected by her love of Bollywood music, and driven by frustration over the quality of medical care available to her, this project investigates the relationships between environment and medical practice - and between the subject and the filmmaker - as it attempts to understand one young woman's experience. Director, Producer: Bridget Hanna Health, Money, and Fear – 46min Produced and directed by a practicing emergency room doctor, "Health, Money and Fear" addresses the following questions about our health care system: "Why does it cost so much?", "What does it say about us?", "What can we do about it?". There are numerous perverse incentives, some subtle and some not so subtle, that drive up the cost. These include the mass marketing of drugs, the insurance industry, the dwindling supply of primary care providers, developing technology, the fear of liability and our unreasonable expectations, especially at the end of life. Everybody is to blame. It's more about fear and money than health. If nothing else, our healthcare system is a large conduit of wealth flowing in the wrong direction, increasing our income gap, and, in some ways, worsening the health of our community. Director, Producer: Paul Hochfeld |