When New York City became the epicenter of the country’s Covid outbreak in 2020, many residents—those of means, anyway—fled to second homes or other points far from the city.
But not New York-based filmmaker Matthew Heineman. He suited up in PPE on the frontlines of the Covid battle.The Oscar-nominated director gained access to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in the borough of Queens, filming the experience of medical staff and patients as Covid exploded.
The result is his documentary The First Wave, a National Geographic production that’s a contender for Oscar consideration.“We first really in earnest started thinking about the film in early March [2020] as the first cases of Covid hit the U.S.,” Heineman tells Deadline. “I wanted to try
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