Linda Davis . Linda Davis is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who produced The Waiting Room (Independent Lens), a vérité portrait of a day in the life at a public hospital in Oakland, California ...

The Waiting Room A rock-solid verite docu, Peter Nicks' "The Waiting Room" spends hard time in the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., where patients often have to wait all day ...

Each landed in the waiting room because, lacking health insurance, they could not get appointments elsewhere. The hospital's ER treats about 80,000 patients a year, or more than 200 a day.

Filmmaker Peter Nicks who made a feature-length documentary shot entirely at Oakland's Highland Hospital titled ˜ The Waiting Room ˜ is seen at the Zaentz Media Center on Tuesday, April 17 ...

There are no pie charts, no Michael Moore antics, no “2016: Obama’s America” posturing. Instead, the involving and topical documentary “The Waiting Room” focuses on the bitter-pill ...

Peter Nicks crafts a composite day-in-the-life of an Oakland hospital's overtaxed emergency room. By THR Staff The Waiting Room Film Still - H 2012 A verité look at an unexamined part of the ...

The Waiting Room performs Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm through Oct. 22. The Company Of Angels' theatre is located at 2106 Hyperion Ave., Silverlake, att the corner of Lyric and Hyperion.

There’s nothing remotely cutting-edge about “The Waiting Room,” apart from a well-turned script, fine performances and small, human grace notes that will chime with any general audience.