Why ‘American Doctor’ Director Quit Her ABC Executive Job and Drained Her Savings Account to Make a Documentary About Gaza Healthcare Workers

Why ‘American Doctor’ Director Quit Her ABC Executive Job and Drained Her Savings Account to Make a Documentary About Gaza Healthcare Workers

When Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist Poh Si Teng heard the news of her colleague Samer Abu Daqqa being killed by an Israeli drone strike while on assignment back in December 2023, something in her broke. “When it’s your peer, it affects you in a very deep way. And then of course I was living […]

Interview: Poh Si Teng on "American Doctor"

The filmmaker discusses this devastating doc about three U.S.-base doctors whose work reveals the totality of the crisis Palestinians face. The post Poh Si Teng on Rising to the Occasion in “American Doctor” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.