Films & Projects

Our Films

2025

We Carry You With Us, Always

When a medical procedure results in the death of a child, a grieving mother and a guilt-ridden physician face each other through an unexpected program that replaces silence with honesty …
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2024

How To Care

This documentary short, directed by Brennan Vance, was completed in 2024, and was funded by a HRSA grant as part of the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) at the University …
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2020

Reflections On The Pandemic

TPT PBSUpper Midwest Regional Emmy Award, 2021National distribution via American Public TelevisionArtists' reflections on the pandemic, hosted by Dr. Jon Hallberg and Dr. Renée Crichlow. Partnership with the University of …
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2021

Speaking of Race

TP PBS Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Award, 2022National distribution via American Public TelevisionHosted by Dr. Jon Hallberg and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab, Art + Medicine: Speaking of Race connects the arts …
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2022

Healthy Aging

TPT PBSNational distribution via American Public Television (APT)Exploring heathy aging with Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab through the 4M’s framework of Mobility, Mentation (more commonly thought of as mood …
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2023

Disability, Culture and Creativity

TPT PBSUpper Midwest Regional Emmy Award, 2024National Distribution via American Public TelevisionArtists and healthcare clinicians create alternative perspectives on disability, through disability, stories and performances, and redefine what we perceive …
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2022

Morning Walk

As the poem so perfectly states, people with Parkinson's want to be remembered“from the inside out," seen but not pitied, considered but not treated as "less than." This film honors …
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2020

On Lockdown

This Motionpoems film was created in 2020 for "Reflections on the Pandemic," our first show with TPT PBS, in an effort to document the time we were going through and …
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Films & Projects
Hippocrates Cafe Productions (HCP) grew out of a live, inspired-by-radio show that ran from 2009 to 2020. It explored complex health topics through story and song, using professional actors and musicians. With the onset of the pandemic, it morphed into a television show ("Reflections on the Pandemic"), produced with TPT PBS, and HCP was born.