{"id":7180,"date":"2013-11-06T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2013-11-06T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:07:09","slug":"humandocs-at-lipscomb-screens-npt-award-winner-remote-area-medical-tonight-wed-nov-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2013\/11\/06\/humandocs-at-lipscomb-screens-npt-award-winner-remote-area-medical-tonight-wed-nov-6\/","title":{"rendered":"HumanDocs at Lipscomb Screens NPT Award Winner `Remote Area Medical` Tonight (Wed. Nov. 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remote Area Medica<\/em>l<\/a>, winner of the 2013 NPT Human Spirit Award<\/a> at the 2013 Nashville Film Festival<\/a>, screens tonight,\u00a0Wednesday<\/b>,\u00a0November 6<\/b>, at\u00a08:30 pm\u00a0 at Lipscomb <\/b>University’s\u00a0Shamblin Theater, <\/b>as part of the university’s excellent HumanDocs film series.<\/p>\n

The time couldn’t be riper to see this film. Directors Jeff Reichert<\/strong> and Farihah Zaman\u2019s<\/strong> film offers a moving portrait of patients and volunteers at the three day \u201cpop-up\u201d\u00a0 medical clinic organized by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) at the Bristol, Tennessee NASCAR speedway.\u00a0 With the clinic offering medical, dental, and vision care, the film captures the desperation and resignation of patients long denied access, as well as the compassion of providers giving of themselves to serve.<\/p>\n

When awarding the film in April, the NPT Human Spirit jury said the film ‘hits close to home, capturing and communicating what it means to be human today, in Tennessee. Doctors and Nurses who once flew to Central and South America to care for people with no access to basic health care now find they don\u2019t even need to leave the U.S. to find those people. They can find them right here in our home state. This is a beautiful, moving and ultimately troubling film that viewers will be thinking about long after it\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n

A brief discussion will follow the screening. The panel features\u00a0Kate Payne<\/b>,\u00a0<\/b>CEO, University Community Health Services;\u00a0Dr. Bruce Wolf<\/b>, founder of Dispensary of Hope;\u00a0Dr. Parker Panovec<\/b>, medical director, Faith Family Health Center;\u00a0Nathan Owens<\/b>, Lipscomb pre-med undergraduate; and\u00a0Beth Youngblood<\/b>, executive associate dean, Lipscomb School of Nursing.<\/p>\n

The screening and panel are\u00a0free<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0open to the public<\/b>. HumanDocs is proud to partner with Lipscomb’s School of Nursing, the Nashville Film Festival, and Nashville Public Television to bring Remote Area Medical\u00a0to the Lipscomb campus.<\/p>\n

Shamblin Theater is in Lipscomb’s\u00a0Bennett Campus Center<\/a>. Parking should be available on the campus drive entered from Granny White Pike near Lipscomb Academy or in the lots parallel to Belmont Boulevard.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact HumanDocs artistic director Ted Parks,\u00a0ted.parks@lipscomb.edu<\/a>,\u00a0615-417-9382<\/a><\/p>\n