On June 24, 2020, Netflix released a special episode of “Lenox Hill.” With a pandemic still in its relative infancy, a doctor-focused doc series presented a 32-minute time capsule of Covid’s arrival in New York City. It’s far from the only show to document those frightening few weeks in its own way, but nearly three years later, “Lenox Hill” still feels like a definitive portrait of that moment in time.
“Lenox Hill” was both a perfect and an odd source for something so specific. On one hand, the show provided an intimate glimpse of life at Lenox Hill Hospital. Through an observational lens, directors/creators Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash were able to present the highest-stakes environment as a day-to-day job in surgery wards and emergency triage centers. Yet one of the intriguing things about that original season is that it felt unmoored from time. The series wasn’t hyperfixated...
“Lenox Hill” was both a perfect and an odd source for something so specific. On one hand, the show provided an intimate glimpse of life at Lenox Hill Hospital. Through an observational lens, directors/creators Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash were able to present the highest-stakes environment as a day-to-day job in surgery wards and emergency triage centers. Yet one of the intriguing things about that original season is that it felt unmoored from time. The series wasn’t hyperfixated...
- 3/29/2023
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Emergency NYC is a documentary series created by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz about emergency services in New York City.
New York, a city with almost nine million inhabitants and nine million possible emergencies every day. Emergencies: New York takes us into the daily life of its health workers, from doctors to nurses, ambulance drivers, and even helicopter pilots to beat the infernal traffic of Manhattan.
A documentary that, despite its fast-paced subject matter, manages to take itself calmly, explaining how the system works from within and how these men and women manage to help every day in the most urgent cases.
A documentary that seeks its essence of divulgation: putting Dziga Vertov’s “cinema eye” in New York City a century later and looking more for the story and getting closer to the men and women who achieve these miracles every day. It wants to more than just highlight...
New York, a city with almost nine million inhabitants and nine million possible emergencies every day. Emergencies: New York takes us into the daily life of its health workers, from doctors to nurses, ambulance drivers, and even helicopter pilots to beat the infernal traffic of Manhattan.
A documentary that, despite its fast-paced subject matter, manages to take itself calmly, explaining how the system works from within and how these men and women manage to help every day in the most urgent cases.
A documentary that seeks its essence of divulgation: putting Dziga Vertov’s “cinema eye” in New York City a century later and looking more for the story and getting closer to the men and women who achieve these miracles every day. It wants to more than just highlight...
- 3/29/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
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Lenox Hill filmmakers Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash have signed with CAA.
The duo are known for making character-driven projects that touch on taboo subjects through their production company, Yulari Films. Shatz and Barash created, produced and directed the Netflix documentary series Lenox Hill that took an intimate look at the lives of four doctors working at the renowned New York City hospital.
Shatz and Adi Barash spent a year following the doctors at Lenox Hill Hospital, two of whom were in the neurosurgery department, along with ER physician Mirtha and Obgyn resident Amanda.
They are currently working on a spin-off series, Emergency NYC, that will follow multiple departments within the city’s health system beyond just one hospital. Shatz and Barash also produced documentaries like The Collaborator and His Family, about a Palestinian family torn apart by its patriarch’s collaboration with Israel,...
Lenox Hill filmmakers Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash have signed with CAA.
The duo are known for making character-driven projects that touch on taboo subjects through their production company, Yulari Films. Shatz and Barash created, produced and directed the Netflix documentary series Lenox Hill that took an intimate look at the lives of four doctors working at the renowned New York City hospital.
Shatz and Adi Barash spent a year following the doctors at Lenox Hill Hospital, two of whom were in the neurosurgery department, along with ER physician Mirtha and Obgyn resident Amanda.
They are currently working on a spin-off series, Emergency NYC, that will follow multiple departments within the city’s health system beyond just one hospital. Shatz and Barash also produced documentaries like The Collaborator and His Family, about a Palestinian family torn apart by its patriarch’s collaboration with Israel,...
- 8/18/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has ordered a spinoff documentary series from the creators of “Lenox Hill” called “Emergency NYC.”
Unlike its predecessor, “Emergency NYC” will extend beyond just one hospital and will follow multiple departments within New York City’s health system. The in-depth look at one of the city’s most complex operations shows the interweaving function of transplant and pediatric trauma units; ambulance and helicopter emergency teams and more. It is produced by Yulari Films and executive produced and directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.
“Lenox Hill” followed the lives of four doctors in New York City, culminating with an episode at the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Casting
Ray Panthaki joined the cast of Starz’s new 16th century drama, “The Serpent Queen.” He will portray Charles Guise, a Catholic Cardinal who revels in stealing from Protestants under the guise of raising funds for war,...
Unlike its predecessor, “Emergency NYC” will extend beyond just one hospital and will follow multiple departments within New York City’s health system. The in-depth look at one of the city’s most complex operations shows the interweaving function of transplant and pediatric trauma units; ambulance and helicopter emergency teams and more. It is produced by Yulari Films and executive produced and directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.
“Lenox Hill” followed the lives of four doctors in New York City, culminating with an episode at the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Casting
Ray Panthaki joined the cast of Starz’s new 16th century drama, “The Serpent Queen.” He will portray Charles Guise, a Catholic Cardinal who revels in stealing from Protestants under the guise of raising funds for war,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
Lives hang in the balance in Lenox Hill, a nine-part Netflix documentary series that offers a rare and gripping look inside a big-city hospital.
Neurosurgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, ER doc Mirtha Macri and Ob-gyn chief resident Amanda Little-Richardson devote themselves to patient care and also try to maintain a semblance of a personal life in the series executive produced and directed by filmmaking couple Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.
“They have a very meticulous job that is strenuous and very hard and they are behind those curtains and nobody really sees the heroic [work] and the sacrifice that they are making,” Shatz explained during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary +Unscripted awards-season event. “We just realized that there is a whole world that is not being shown.”
Hipaa laws make it very difficult to film in a medical setting, but Barash and Shatz obtained consent from numerous patients.
“I think people want to be seen…...
Neurosurgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, ER doc Mirtha Macri and Ob-gyn chief resident Amanda Little-Richardson devote themselves to patient care and also try to maintain a semblance of a personal life in the series executive produced and directed by filmmaking couple Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.
“They have a very meticulous job that is strenuous and very hard and they are behind those curtains and nobody really sees the heroic [work] and the sacrifice that they are making,” Shatz explained during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary +Unscripted awards-season event. “We just realized that there is a whole world that is not being shown.”
Hipaa laws make it very difficult to film in a medical setting, but Barash and Shatz obtained consent from numerous patients.
“I think people want to be seen…...
- 5/1/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s a couple more months until summer officially starts, but Saturday is shining bright with the new season of Deadline’s Contenders Television franchise. Padma Lakshmi, Demi Lovato, Stephen Colbert, Jameela Jamil, Amy Schumer and the Queer Eye guys are among the panelists in the lineup as we launch our newest TV award-season event.
Deadline’s first-ever Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted starts at 8 a.m. Pt with a full day spotlighting the most vital shows and top talent in the genres, packed with virtual presentations from almost 40 shows from 19 outlets.
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
Starting with Starz’s rollicking Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip With Sam and Graham, today’s lineup features Hulu’s Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, YouTube Originals’ Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil and Netflix’s Queer Eye, as well as Fox’s The Masked Singer and FX...
Deadline’s first-ever Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted starts at 8 a.m. Pt with a full day spotlighting the most vital shows and top talent in the genres, packed with virtual presentations from almost 40 shows from 19 outlets.
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
Starting with Starz’s rollicking Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip With Sam and Graham, today’s lineup features Hulu’s Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, YouTube Originals’ Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil and Netflix’s Queer Eye, as well as Fox’s The Masked Singer and FX...
- 5/1/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
UTA has signed award-winning filmmakers Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz for representation in all areas.
Known for making character-driven projects that touch on taboo subjects under their Yulari Films banner, Barash and Shatz created, produced and directed the Netflix docuseries “Lenox Hill,” which takes an intimate look at the lives of four doctors working at the renowned New York City hospital.
In his review of the medical documentary series, which launched in June 2020, Variety’s Daniel D’Addario ranked the series among the best shows released in early 2020.
“What’s so striking about ‘Lenox Hill’ is the way it shows the excitement and the stress of the utterly quotidian.” D’Addario said, noting the show filmed eight of nine episodes before the Covid-19 pandemic, but launched during it. “It depicts a seemingly well-funded, competently staffed hospital in which the best of times are still grindingly tough, and introduces four characters whose...
Known for making character-driven projects that touch on taboo subjects under their Yulari Films banner, Barash and Shatz created, produced and directed the Netflix docuseries “Lenox Hill,” which takes an intimate look at the lives of four doctors working at the renowned New York City hospital.
In his review of the medical documentary series, which launched in June 2020, Variety’s Daniel D’Addario ranked the series among the best shows released in early 2020.
“What’s so striking about ‘Lenox Hill’ is the way it shows the excitement and the stress of the utterly quotidian.” D’Addario said, noting the show filmed eight of nine episodes before the Covid-19 pandemic, but launched during it. “It depicts a seemingly well-funded, competently staffed hospital in which the best of times are still grindingly tough, and introduces four characters whose...
- 4/15/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The first eight episodes of the Netflix documentary series “Lenox Hill” followed doctors who are clearly passionate about what they do. In the heart of a profession that requires a specific, continuous commitment, these medical experts each talk about what motivates them to keep going in a job that’s drenched in uncertainty.
But for as much enthusiasm and conviction as those episodes have, the new half-hour follow-up detailing these doctors’ experiences after the arrival of coronavirus in New York City shows them in moments that bring them to tears. In this epilogue, there’s a very different feel to what viewers get to see of this fight. In the process, it shows how far away we still are from a point where we can look back with any definitive answers.
It’s a chronological look at how the hospital (shown in the rest of the season under more normal...
But for as much enthusiasm and conviction as those episodes have, the new half-hour follow-up detailing these doctors’ experiences after the arrival of coronavirus in New York City shows them in moments that bring them to tears. In this epilogue, there’s a very different feel to what viewers get to see of this fight. In the process, it shows how far away we still are from a point where we can look back with any definitive answers.
It’s a chronological look at how the hospital (shown in the rest of the season under more normal...
- 6/24/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The first eight episodes of the Netflix documentary series “Lenox Hill” followed doctors who are clearly passionate about what they do. In the heart of a profession that requires a specific, continuous commitment, these medical experts each talk about what motivates them to keep going in a job that’s drenched in uncertainty.
But for as much enthusiasm and conviction as those episodes have, the new half-hour follow-up detailing these doctors’ experiences after the arrival of coronavirus in New York City shows them in moments that bring them to tears. In this epilogue, there’s a very different feel to what viewers get to see of this fight. In the process, it shows how far away we still are from a point where we can look back with any definitive answers.
It’s a chronological look at how the hospital (shown in the rest of the season under more normal...
But for as much enthusiasm and conviction as those episodes have, the new half-hour follow-up detailing these doctors’ experiences after the arrival of coronavirus in New York City shows them in moments that bring them to tears. In this epilogue, there’s a very different feel to what viewers get to see of this fight. In the process, it shows how far away we still are from a point where we can look back with any definitive answers.
It’s a chronological look at how the hospital (shown in the rest of the season under more normal...
- 6/24/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Thompson on Hollywood
With temperatures on the rise and no end of summer in sight, we become increasingly thankful for the time we spend inside our air-conditioned homes, comforted by the silence which we have grown used to during quarantine, and entertained by our one and only true friend: Netflix. And so, on that note, here’s what’s new on the platform today, June 24th.
First off we have a documentary called Lenox Hill. Developed by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, and starring John Boockvar, David Langer and Mirtha Macri among others, it follows the lives of doctors and nurses working at the Lenox Hill Hospital in upper Manhattan. Christened as one of the most poignant docuseries of the year, its latest episode is centered around, you guessed it, Covid-19. Specifically, it will explore how the employees of this hard-hit hospital dealt with the pandemic.
Up next we have another documentary, this one called Athlete A.
First off we have a documentary called Lenox Hill. Developed by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, and starring John Boockvar, David Langer and Mirtha Macri among others, it follows the lives of doctors and nurses working at the Lenox Hill Hospital in upper Manhattan. Christened as one of the most poignant docuseries of the year, its latest episode is centered around, you guessed it, Covid-19. Specifically, it will explore how the employees of this hard-hit hospital dealt with the pandemic.
Up next we have another documentary, this one called Athlete A.
- 6/24/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
Convincing someone to let you follow them around as you go about your day is hard enough. Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, directors of the new Netflix documentary series “Lenox Hill,” had to persuade a quartet of doctors at the hospital in New York’s Upper East Side to allow them into some of the most intimate parts of their daily life.
In order to gain the trust of not only them but the patients in their care, the key to was to be incredibly up front about what they were looking to do with what became an eight-part season of TV.
“Trust is everything in what we do. It’s trust and really conveying your intention. It’s your intentions that make it meaningful at the end,” Barash told IndieWire. “Trust is a very important commodity, especially with these characters. They’re revealing themselves, their stories, and private lives,...
In order to gain the trust of not only them but the patients in their care, the key to was to be incredibly up front about what they were looking to do with what became an eight-part season of TV.
“Trust is everything in what we do. It’s trust and really conveying your intention. It’s your intentions that make it meaningful at the end,” Barash told IndieWire. “Trust is a very important commodity, especially with these characters. They’re revealing themselves, their stories, and private lives,...
- 6/15/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Thompson on Hollywood
Convincing someone to let you follow them around as you go about your day is hard enough. Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, directors of the new Netflix documentary series “Lenox Hill,” had to persuade a quartet of doctors at the hospital in New York’s Upper East Side to allow them into some of the most intimate parts of their daily life.
In order to gain the trust of not only them but the patients in their care, the key to was to be incredibly up front about what they were looking to do with what became an eight-part season of TV.
“Trust is everything in what we do. It’s trust and really conveying your intention. It’s your intentions that make it meaningful at the end,” Barash told IndieWire. “Trust is a very important commodity, especially with these characters. They’re revealing themselves, their stories, and private lives,...
In order to gain the trust of not only them but the patients in their care, the key to was to be incredibly up front about what they were looking to do with what became an eight-part season of TV.
“Trust is everything in what we do. It’s trust and really conveying your intention. It’s your intentions that make it meaningful at the end,” Barash told IndieWire. “Trust is a very important commodity, especially with these characters. They’re revealing themselves, their stories, and private lives,...
- 6/15/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“Families don’t want to see blood on your shoes,” Dr. John Boockvar says in an early episode of the new Netflix series “Lenox Hill.” Seeing him quickly wipe himself down before going out to talk to the family of a patient who’s just finished undergoing brain surgery, it’s one of the moments that crystallizes what the show does best.
This vérité look inside the eponymous Upper East Side hospital offers a glimpse into the day-to-day emotional and physical toll that comes with working in health care, utilizing tiny aphorisms like Dr. Boockyar’s to illustrate how much these dedicated professionals can control and what can still remain elusive.
There’s a quartet of doctors that “Lenox Hill” uses as its main lens. Dr. David Langer, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery serves alongside Boockvar, the department’s vice chair. In the maternity wing, Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson is...
This vérité look inside the eponymous Upper East Side hospital offers a glimpse into the day-to-day emotional and physical toll that comes with working in health care, utilizing tiny aphorisms like Dr. Boockyar’s to illustrate how much these dedicated professionals can control and what can still remain elusive.
There’s a quartet of doctors that “Lenox Hill” uses as its main lens. Dr. David Langer, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery serves alongside Boockvar, the department’s vice chair. In the maternity wing, Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson is...
- 6/10/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Thompson on Hollywood
“Families don’t want to see blood on your shoes,” Dr. John Boockvar says in an early episode of the new Netflix series “Lenox Hill.” Seeing him quickly wipe himself down before going out to talk to the family of a patient who’s just finished undergoing brain surgery, it’s one of the moments that crystallizes what the show does best.
This vérité look inside the eponymous Upper East Side hospital offers a glimpse into the day-to-day emotional and physical toll that comes with working in health care, utilizing tiny aphorisms like Dr. Boockyar’s to illustrate how much these dedicated professionals can control and what can still remain elusive.
There’s a quartet of doctors that “Lenox Hill” uses as its main lens. Dr. David Langer, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery serves alongside Boockvar, the department’s vice chair. In the maternity wing, Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson is...
This vérité look inside the eponymous Upper East Side hospital offers a glimpse into the day-to-day emotional and physical toll that comes with working in health care, utilizing tiny aphorisms like Dr. Boockyar’s to illustrate how much these dedicated professionals can control and what can still remain elusive.
There’s a quartet of doctors that “Lenox Hill” uses as its main lens. Dr. David Langer, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery serves alongside Boockvar, the department’s vice chair. In the maternity wing, Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson is...
- 6/10/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
That doctors have difficult jobs is among the points TV has made most forcefully throughout the medium’s existence. The genre has long since entered its baroque period, larding on helicopter crashes (“ER”), medical mysteries (“House”) and bombs inside patients (the still-running “Grey’s Anatomy”) to gin up increasingly unsatisfying excitement and over-prove the case that working in a hospital is hard.
What’s so striking about “Lenox Hill,” Netflix’s new documentary series and among the best shows released so far this year, is the way it shows the excitement and the stress of the utterly quotidian. Released into a world in which our understanding of the pressures hospitals face has been newly reinforced, “Lenox Hill” was shot before the Covid-19 pandemic. It depicts a seemingly well-funded, competently staffed hospital in which the best of times are still grindingly tough, and introduces four characters whose un-reality-tv-ish aversion to high dudgeon...
What’s so striking about “Lenox Hill,” Netflix’s new documentary series and among the best shows released so far this year, is the way it shows the excitement and the stress of the utterly quotidian. Released into a world in which our understanding of the pressures hospitals face has been newly reinforced, “Lenox Hill” was shot before the Covid-19 pandemic. It depicts a seemingly well-funded, competently staffed hospital in which the best of times are still grindingly tough, and introduces four characters whose un-reality-tv-ish aversion to high dudgeon...
- 6/6/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix released a trailer for Jo Koy’s new comedy special, and ABC announced impressive ratings for the 16th season finale of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Dates
Disney Plus has announced that its original movie “Secret Society of Second-Born Royals” will debut on the streamer on July 17. The film follows stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Sam, a teenage royal learning how to control her developing superpowers at a boarding school for other misfits. Zanne Devine, Mike Karz and Austin Winsberg serve as executive producers with Juliana Janes as a co-producer. Watch a trailer for the film below.
First Looks
Netflix has released a trailer for Jo Koy’s new comedy special. The special, titled “Jo Koy: In His Elements,“ features Koy performing in the Philippines alongside other Filipino American performers. It premieres on the streamer on June 12. Watch the trailer below.
Netflix has also released a...
Dates
Disney Plus has announced that its original movie “Secret Society of Second-Born Royals” will debut on the streamer on July 17. The film follows stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Sam, a teenage royal learning how to control her developing superpowers at a boarding school for other misfits. Zanne Devine, Mike Karz and Austin Winsberg serve as executive producers with Juliana Janes as a co-producer. Watch a trailer for the film below.
First Looks
Netflix has released a trailer for Jo Koy’s new comedy special. The special, titled “Jo Koy: In His Elements,“ features Koy performing in the Philippines alongside other Filipino American performers. It premieres on the streamer on June 12. Watch the trailer below.
Netflix has also released a...
- 5/28/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has released the trailer for a new documentary series that will take an intimate look at the lives of four New York doctors. Lenox Hill, named after the Upper East Side hospital where the series takes place, will premiere June 10th on the streaming platform.
Four doctors — brain surgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, emergency-room physician Mirtha Macri, and chief resident Ob/Gyn Amanda Little-Richardson — will be the focus of the series as they navigate the day-to-day challenges of caring for patients at Lenox Hill Hospital and struggle to...
Four doctors — brain surgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, emergency-room physician Mirtha Macri, and chief resident Ob/Gyn Amanda Little-Richardson — will be the focus of the series as they navigate the day-to-day challenges of caring for patients at Lenox Hill Hospital and struggle to...
- 5/27/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Could this Netflix docuseries come be any more timely? Lenox Hill, a new series that follows four doctors—two brain surgeons, an emergency room physician and the chief Obgyn resident—as they navigate working at New York City's renowned Lenox Hill Hospital. While seeing life and death and those who stand on the front lines might not be the kind of entertainment many want to watch during a global pandemic, the show aims to provide an unflinching eye at the struggle these doctors go through to balance it all in their personal and professional lives, as well as the journey of patients. The eight 50-minute episodes premiere June 10 and were directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz. Get a glimpse at...
- 5/27/2020
- E! Online
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Channel has acquired four documentaries from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for the network's Docday programming block: The Five Obstructions, by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier; The Garden, by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash; Investigation Into the Invisible World, by Jean Michel Roux; and Screaming Men, by Mika Ronkainen.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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