Encore Screening of 'The Waiting Room' Next Week

If you missed seeing The Waiting Room, the Oscar-nominated documentary produced and directed by Piedmont filmmaker Peter Nicks, you have another chance Thursday, April 11.

The film will have an encore presentation at 7 p.m. at the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood (Elmwood Theatre), 2966 College Ave., Berkeley (at Ashby). Nicks will be on hand to answer questions after the film showing.

The screening is a benefit for the LifeLong West Berkeley Capital Campaign, and tickets are $25 per person. 

The Waiting Room is a feature-length immersive documentary, released in 2012, that uses unprecedented access to go behind the doors of Oakland’s Highland Hospital.

Using a blend of cinema verité and characters’ voiceover, the film offers a raw, intimate and often uplifting look at how patients, staff and caregivers cope with disease, bureaucracy, frustration, hope and hard choices during one typically hec­tic day.

Nicks has produced projects for network, cable and public television exploring topics such as immigration, journalism and technology. Before making The Waiting Room, he worked as a staff producer forABC News in New York and as a producer for the innovative PBS documentary series Life 360.

For more information and to buy tickets n advance, visit the theater's website.