Film shows nightmare of an emergency room in Italy
Associated PressNEW YORK — Filmmaker Sasha Joelle Achilli has made documentaries on the Ebola virus and now the coronavirus. So it was more frightening, definitely.” Achilli’s film, “Inside Italy’s COVID War,” is being shown on “Frontline” at 10 p.m. Tuesday on most PBS stations. “It has a special quality to it, the intimacy she was able to foster and the trust,” said Raney Aronson-Rath, executive producer of “Frontline.” “That kind of trust usually takes a lot of time, but Sasha was able to build that trust very quickly.” Achilli’s camera catches a 30-year-old woman, sitting alone in a wheelchair and calling her husband to say her the X-ray of her lungs didn’t look good. “We didn’t want to do a congratulatory film about doctors but what emerged was a heroic portrait of people trying to save other people.” “Frontline” has other coronavirus projects in the works, including a June 16 documentary investigating what went wrong with the response and others about the financial fallout and conspiracy theories. “I understand that our freedoms have been taken away — that we’re not used to living like this, and not used to having governments tell us what we can and can’t do,” she said.
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