{"id":573005,"date":"2026-08-18T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573005\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:12:28","slug":"american-doctor-healthcare-workers-to-receive-free-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573005\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Doctor\u2019: Healthcare Workers To Receive Free Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/watermelon-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_watermelon-pictures\" data-tag=\"watermelon-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watermelon Pictures<\/a> got off to a buzzy start last weekend at the Angelika in New York City with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/american-doctor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-doctor\" data-tag=\"american-doctor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Doctor<\/a>, Poh Si Teng\u2019s documentary feature about three U.S. physicians who volunteered to treat grievously wounded Palestinian children in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatermelon reported a cume of $41.1k at the Angelika. The film expands this week, and Watermelon is offering healthcare professionals complimentary tickets to two screenings in Los Angeles and Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDoctors, nurses, physician assistants, EMTs, and medical students can apply to see the film for free via Watermelon\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe0OcyDTseGK6-e3nQGkShOO-441qe8cwdhcMJZs74evCs8sA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">registration form<\/a>. The Los Angeles screening takes place on Sunday at 1 pm and the Chicago screening is next Wednesday at 6:30 pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAmerican Doctor won the Tom Rankin\u202fAudience Award at the Full Frame festival in Durham, NC, and the audience award and the Michael Sullivan Frontline Award for Journalism at Salem Film Fest in Massachusetts. The film also picked up honors at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/2026-thessaloniki-international-documentary-festival-awards-1236754236\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival<\/a> in Greece and CPH: DOX in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe physicians profiled in the doc risked their lives to perform emergency surgeries on children who had been gravely injured in shelling, bombing, and other attacks by the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is a Tiny Boxer Films production and is produced by Poh Si Teng, Oscar nominee Kirstine Barfod (The Cave), and Reem Haddad. The film is edited by Christopher White and Oscar nominee Ema Ryan Yamazaki (Black Box Diaries, Instruments of a Beating Heart).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCo-producers are Mohammed Sawwaf and Kasper Lykke Schultz, with executive producers Simon Kilmurry, Hamza Ali, Glennon Doyle, Rasha Mansouri, Hassan Elmasry, Poh Si Teng, Rami Elghandour, Andreas Dalsgaard, Mehdi Hasan, Juan Pablo Raymond and Kiran Alvi. The original score is composed by Suad Bushnaq, and the original song \u201cAstral Light\u201d is composed and performed by Suvo Sur, featuring Poh Si Teng on vocals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt the Sundance Film Festival, where American Doctor premiered, Teng and the physicians came to Deadline\u2019s Studio. You can see that interview <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/video\/american-doctor-interview-director-poh-si-teng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watermelon Pictures got off to a buzzy start last weekend at the Angelika in New York City with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[203679,134,527,111,139,69,90634],"class_list":["post-573005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-american-doctor","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-watermelon-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}