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American Doctor: "It’s really in the United States that I learned how to dissent & how to fight for what really matters...and the only way I know how to fight is as a filmmaker.”
In this vHopeful Conversation, I sit down with filmmaker Poh Si Teng—Oscar‑nominated producer of St. Louis Superman, Emmy‑winning executive producer of Patrice: The Movie, and now first‑time feature director of American Doctor—to talk about why she stepped out from behind the scenes after two decades as a producer, commissioner, and executive to make an urgent, deeply personal film about three American physicians (Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian) who volunteer in besieged hospitals in Gaza and then carry their fight for patients to the halls of Congress. We discuss how she found these…
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