Special Screening: The Bleeding Edge, Q&A

Showings

Studio Theater Sat, Sep 15, 2018 1:00 PM
INFORMATION
Rating:Unrated
Run Time:2h 15min
Genre:Documentary
Category:Special Screenings
CAST/CREW
Director:Kirby Dick

Description

A special presentation of this searing documentary, co-presented by The Nantucket Project, that will include a Q&A immediately following with producer Amy Ziering . America has the most technologically advanced health care system in the world, yet medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death, and the overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices never require a single clinical trial. In THE BLEEDING EDGE, Academy Award (R) nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (THE INVISIBLE WAR, THE HUNTING GROUND) turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry, examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit driven incentives that put patients at risk daily. Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, the film asks: what life-saving technologies may actually be killing us?