Screening of 'The English Surgeon'
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A film by Geoffrey Smith
Date: 27 April 2010
Time: 10.00 - 12.30
Venue: Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
A Q&A session will follow the screening.
What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail?
Shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, "The English Surgeon" is an intimate portrait of brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he wrestles with the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship.
Producer/Director Geoffrey Smith was born in Melbourne, Australia and was always fascinated by the moving image. Never at ease in "the lucky country" however, he went travelling to find himself and discovered en route a love of listening and storytelling.
In 1987 he found himself in Haiti helping to make to make a documentary about the first election there in 31 years, but following the discovery of a massacre of twenty one voters in a schoolyard he was shot and wounded. Struggling to put his life back together in London, Geoffrey decided to film his journey back to Haiti to find the man who had so nearly killed him. This acclaimed film was subsequently shown on the BBC and is remarkable for the on screen catharsis it intimately portrayed.
Having discovered through this very personal film that the camera could be a powerful cathartic tool in helping people through difficult periods in their lives, many of Geoffrey's subsequent films are built around this use of the camera.
Winner of numerous awards, including an RTS in 2004 and in 2007, he has made over twenty two films for all the major UK broadcasters and is drawn to observational real life dramas where deep ethical and moral dilemmas abound.
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Date: 27 April 2010
Time: 10.00 - 12.30
Venue: Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
A Q&A session will follow the screening.
What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail?
Shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, "The English Surgeon" is an intimate portrait of brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he wrestles with the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship.
Producer/Director Geoffrey Smith was born in Melbourne, Australia and was always fascinated by the moving image. Never at ease in "the lucky country" however, he went travelling to find himself and discovered en route a love of listening and storytelling.
In 1987 he found himself in Haiti helping to make to make a documentary about the first election there in 31 years, but following the discovery of a massacre of twenty one voters in a schoolyard he was shot and wounded. Struggling to put his life back together in London, Geoffrey decided to film his journey back to Haiti to find the man who had so nearly killed him. This acclaimed film was subsequently shown on the BBC and is remarkable for the on screen catharsis it intimately portrayed.
Having discovered through this very personal film that the camera could be a powerful cathartic tool in helping people through difficult periods in their lives, many of Geoffrey's subsequent films are built around this use of the camera.
Winner of numerous awards, including an RTS in 2004 and in 2007, he has made over twenty two films for all the major UK broadcasters and is drawn to observational real life dramas where deep ethical and moral dilemmas abound.
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