Inside the hospitals of lockdown Wuhan
Chinese filmmaker Hao Wu watched the Coronavirus pandemic unfold as he put together a groundbreaking film about the 76 days of lockdown in Wuhan, from his home in New York.
When Chinese-American film director Hao Wu was approached to make a film about the 76 days of lockdown in Wuhan, he was eager to do it. Based in New York and unable to get back into China as the coronavirus outbreak continued to spread, Hao worked with two co-directors on the ground in Wuhan who got unprecedented access to four hospitals across the city. The resulting film 76 Days tells the moving stories of patients struggling to survive and the kindness of the frontline medical staff trying to save them. The film, co-directed by Weixi Chen and a third anonymous filmmaker, is out now.
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Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: June Christie
Picture: Nurse at a hospital in Wuhan holding a grandmother's hand
Credit: DogWoof
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