Mission

Hippocrates Cafe Productions is dedicated to creating films that explore health-related stories with sensitivity, curiosity, and deep empathy.

We are especially interested in producing films that destigmatize, seek to improve the public’s health, increase health literacy, model kindness, and promote primary care (especially family medicine).

Hippocrates Cafe was created in 2009 by Dr. Jon Hallberg, in an unfinished space in the University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic in Minneapolis. It was conceived as a live, one-hour show that placed complex healthcare topics in context through