7/20/2023 0 Comments 2 door cinema club nycThe government “reports having two or three times more ambulances than they actually have,” Lorentzen said. Midnight Family opens with the following statistic: “In Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million.” It’s generally a disregarded statistic yet, one that yearns to be addressed and embodies the pervasive corruption that undergirds Mexico’s neoliberal policymaking. His previous effort, New York Times’ Critics Pick Midnight Family investigates similarly murky ethical territory in healthcare systems through its unflinching depiction of Mexico City’s underground for-profit ambulance industry. Luke Lorentzen’s commitment to compassionate, close-quarters filmmaking recently earned him this year’s Sundance Documentary Directing Award for A Still Small Voice, detailing an aspiring chaplain’s yearlong residency in the spiritual care department of New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
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