In which Shree talks to Kim Sertich, a filmmaker who owns a production company in Phoenix, Arizona. She recently made a documentary about how the current healthcare system had failed her, called “Healthcare Unmasked” streaming on amazon.com. Her website is healthcareunmasked.com
Questions Covered:
What is the documentary about and how did you get insured beforehand?
Why did you choose the faith based program and what are the different options if you didn’t want to do a faith based program?
Why did you choose the documentary form to convince people and do you think it worked/benefits out of the process itself?
As a medical/college student, how do you balance the time between work and filming?
What makes a good questions and how do you elicit a good response?
Taking me through a day of documentary research, and thought process through each thing?
Did you feel that you arrived at journalism or did you want to go into journalism from the get go?
How was meeting the president?
What are your next plans?
How does this conversation relate to younger audiences?
How do hospital mergers affect the career of physicians? Should they become entrepreneurs?
What was the best/worst thing of the whole process and why was it so good/bad?
How long did it take to complete the documentary?
What exactly was the timeline between when you started and ended?
How long did you think it was going to take to film the documentary?
Before you started the interviews, how long did you research the interviews?
What did you learn at the end of the process?
What gets you up out of bed in the morning?
What would be her three wishes?