# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Black Film: Unscreened & Unstreamed, The Waiting Room
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: A day in the life of a public hospital in Oakland fighting for survival in a moment of profound change in the nation’s economy & health careAbout this EventThe Waiting Room is a feature-length immersive documentary film that uses unprecedented access to go behind the doors of Oakland’s Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital fighting for survival while weathering the storm of a persistent economic downturn. Stretched to the breaking point, Highland is the primary care facility for 250,000 patients of nearly every nationality, race, and religion, with 250 patients – most of them uninsured – crowding its emergency room every day. 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.The ER waiting room serves as the grounding point for the film, capturing in vivid detail what it means for millions of Americans to live without health insurance. Young victims of gun violence take their turn alongside artists and uninsured small business owners. Steel workers, cab drivers, and international asylum seekers crowd the halls.The film weaves together several stories from the hundreds being played out in the waiting room: a frightened child with a dangerous case of strep throat, a young man with a testicular tumor in desperate need of surgery, as well as those suffering from chronic conditions such as alcohol and drug abuse, heart disease, and diabetes. We also meet the overwhelmed hospital staff who cope with understaffing, insufficient beds, and a never-ending stream of ER patients who jump to the head of the line of those sitting in the waiting room. As one doctor says, Highland is “the institution of last resort for so many people.”The Waiting Room lays bare the struggle and determination of both a community and an institution functioning with limited resources and no road map for navigating a health care landscape marked by historic economic and political dysfunction. Through this story of one hospital and its multifaceted community, the film powerfully and poignantly illustrates the common vulnerability to illness that binds us together as humans.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oakland/black-film-unscreened-and-unstreamed-the-waiting-room/100001980069236388
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, nonprofit, health-wellness, sports, business, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Oakland
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Oakstop
- **lat**: 37.8071017
- **long**: -122.2697716
- **full address**: Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, Oakland, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 10
- **organizer**: Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice (https://allevents.in/org/sarah-webster-fabio-center-for-social-justice/18598194)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, Oakland, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, nonprofit, health-wellness, sports, business, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Black Film: Unscreened & Unstreamed, The Waiting Room ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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