Citygate Films

Our Kickstarter Campaign for Patient Safety

Carolyn McCulley — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:46:31 +0000

Our feature documentary on medical errors and patient harm, BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE, is wrapping up a successful month-long Kickstarter campaign. We have been honored and pleased by the support for this project from the broader healthcare community—including patients and patient advocates. Below is our pitch trailer, featuring co-directors Brad Allgood and Carolyn McCulley, followed by two Kickstarter update videos: one explains the Seven Pillars process for responding to patient harm and the second addresses the pressure residents can feel about patient harm as young physicians. If you’ve never heard a doctor speak candidly about medical errors, then you need to take a few minutes to watch these clips and learn about the risks of medical errors.

THE KICKSTARTER ISSUE AND PITCH TRAILER

THE SEVEN PILLARS PROCESS

PHYSICIANS OF THE FUTURE

The Justice Conference Film Festival

Carolyn McCulley — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:36:15 +0000

The Citygate team is headed to Philadelphia February 24th to participate in The Justice Conference Film Festival. Citygate’s film, THE ROAD WE KNOW, is an official film festival selection and screens at 3:15. Suzanne Taylor Glover is the director, Carolyn McCulley is the co-producer, and Brad Allgood is the director of photography for this film. We are also pleased that Brad’s film with Fall Line Pictures and Nomading Films–MY VILLAGE, MY LOBSTER–is also screening there at 7:35 pm.

Music of the Mayangna

Carolyn McCulley — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:12:50 +0000

Hammock? Check. Dry bags for camera gear? Check. GoPro as second camera for crazy adventure footage? Check. Microphones and recording gear? Check. Citygate’s Brad Allgood is spending the first two weeks of 2013 filming the music traditions of the Mayangna Indians in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northern Nicaragua.

Photo: Esteban Felix

Celebrating Four Years

Carolyn McCulley — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:32:26 +0000

Citygate staff at Silverdocs 2012

At the start of 2013, Citygate is celebrating its fourth year in business … and we’re loving every minute of it! As a documentary film company, we are working on four independent feature documentary films and have produced dozens of short films and trailers for clients. Our first feature film, the HIV prevention film called THE ROAD WE KNOW, was released a year ago and our remaining films (A NOTE OF HOPE, MACH ONE MAC, and BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE) are in various stages of production.

Over the last four years, we’ve filmed in numerous nations: Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Korea, Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, and Switzerland. One short film we did for a nonprofit client–the story of love and traumatic brain injury in the lives of Ian & Larissa Murphy–has been seen more than 1 million times online across various channels. We really enjoy taking the story-telling skills of independent documentaries and applying them to the stories our clients have about their mission and products.

Our music documentary, A NOTE OF HOPE, is deep in post-production after four years of filming a group of jazz musicians and their love for the art and heritage of the traditional spiritual. This film has taken us from D.C. to Africa and back again to Philadelphia and New York. We consider it an honor to have joined these long-time friends on their musical journey of hope, perseverance, and identity.

Our aviation documentary, MACH ONE MAC, is just entering post-production now. It’s the story of a Korean War fighter pilot and his quest to remain airborne even into his 80s. A blend of aviation history and human interest, this is a film for anyone who has had a lifelong passion. We are thrilled to be working with never-before-seen historical footage as well as current aviation scenes.

Citygate’s latest project, BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE, is the unsettling story of what really happens with patient safety in hospitals. It profiles a group of leading doctors and patient safety advocates as they challenge the status quo of human error behind “the wall of silence.” We began production a few months ago and have been filming in various cities in the U.S.

More regular updates can be found on our Facebook and Twitter sites. Happy new year!

Unaccountable Book Trailer

Carolyn McCulley — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:13:45 +0000
Citygate Films produced the book trailer for Dr. Marty Makary's New York Times-bestselling book, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Don't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care. It's the project that inspired our interest in the healthcare documentary we are producing, BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE. It introduced us to many of the leaders in patient safety and patient advocacy in this area.

It Pays to Share Link Love

Carolyn McCulley — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:22:04 +0000

Just in time for the International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2012, our HIV prevention film, THE ROAD WE KNOW, is now available everywhere for rent or download via the innovative Distrify app (and so is the soundtrack). Even better: Distrify rewards our fans for sharing link love. Watch the film, share your unique link, and Distrify will give you ten percent of the sale revenues.

Brad Allgood Joins Citygate Team

Carolyn McCulley — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:27:24 +0000

We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the Citygate team: the triple threat (producer, cinematographer, and editor) of Brad Allgood. Among his many credits, Brad is the director of photography for the Citygate project, THE ROAD WE KNOW, a film by director Suzanne Taylor. He is also the producer, cinematographer, and editor of MY VILLAGE, MY LOBSTER, an environmental film currently on the film festival circuit about the trials of Nicaragua’s lobster divers.

Brad is joining Citygate to develop our healthcare documentary, BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE.

Breaking the Wall of Silence

Carolyn McCulley — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:56:12 +0000

“The number of patients who die each year from hospital errors is equal to four jumbo jets crashing each week.” So stated AARP’s March 2012 Bulletin. But are consumers aware of this data? Do they know which doctors have the best patient outcomes? And why in an age of digitally accessed information is it easier to evaluate a new computer or a hotel room than a doctor or hospital? Citygate just added a fourth film to our slate of feature documentaries–BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE, now in development.

Breaking the Wall of Silence: Citygate’s Newest Film

Carolyn McCulley — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:30:04 +0000

“The number of patients who die each year from hospital errors is equal to four jumbo jets crashing each week.” So stated AARP’s March 2012 Bulletin. But are consumers aware of this data? Do they know which doctors have the best patient outcomes? And why in an age of digitally accessed information is it easier to evaluate a new computer or a hotel room than a doctor or hospital?

Citygate just added a fourth film to our slate of feature documentaries–BREAKING THE WALL OF SILENCE. Currently in pre-production, this film is about the push by doctors and patients alike for greater safety in healthcare. For the latest updates, check out the film’s Facebook page or Twitter feed.

Cuba and the Night

Carolyn McCulley — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:38:45 +0000

A three-minute poetic journey through modern Cuba, a place few Americans have seen. Filmed during our August 2011 visit to Havana and Matanzas. Watch “Cuba and the Night.”