We Are Alive! The Fight to Save Braddock Hospital

Overview

We Are Alive! The Fight To Save Braddock Hospital is a documentary feature film about the fight for quality health-care for all. It is about the fight residents from Braddock, Pennsylvania and the Mon-Valley waged against the ten billion dollar non-profit medical corporate giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to keep their community hospital, UPMC Braddock, open. This 'cinema verite' style documentary was shot over a 2 1/2 year period, from October 2009 to June 2012. The film follows the community from disbelief, to anger, to organizing, to taking it to the streets.