"The Pitch" Hits Theaters with 5-City Release Tour
Type: News
Focus Area: Patient Safety
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is proud to announce the 2024 Release Tour of The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation hitting theaters in New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Palo Alto (Silicon Valley) September 4-17.
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is proud to announce the 2024 Release Tour of The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation hitting theaters in New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Palo Alto (Silicon Valley) September 4-17.
The screenings were organized in partnership with Tall Tale Productions. Following each screening, Mike Eisenberg, the film’s director, will moderate a panel discussion with patient safety and tech experts from each locale. Tickets to attend are free and can be reserved by following the links below:
- Chicago Screening at the Davis Theater, September 4, 7-9pm
- New York Screening at the Angelika Film Center & Café, September 5, 7-9pm
- DC Screening at Landmark’s E Street Cinema, September 11, 7-9pm
- Boston Screening at Coolidge Corner Theatre, September 12, 6:30-8:30pm
- Palo Alto Screening, September 17, 7-9pm
The Pitch documentary explores technological advances to detect and prevent potential harms to patients in healthcare settings and showcases the importance of collaboration among those inside and outside the medical sphere and the creative ways innovators are bringing technology to health care. The film portrays some unique solutions to the current upsurge in medical errors. Through expert interviews, recent technology breakthroughs, and one young innovator’s journey into the frontiers of medicine, The Pitch offers optimism for the future of patient safety.
The Pitch will is also be screening at conferences and meetings across the United States, and globally: SimGHOSTS Conference in Indianapolis, Ind., August 8; University of Adelaide screening August 14 in Adelaide, Australia; University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Ala., August 21; The Healthcare Advocate Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., September 3; 11th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit in Irvine, Calif., September 7; Patients for Patient Safety Taiwan’s Patient Safety Day Event in Taipei, Taiwan, September 12; AcademyHealth’s Health Datapalooza in Washington, DC, September 16; D’Youville University in Buffalo, NY, October 7; Tennessee Academy of Physician Assistants in Gatlinburg, Tenn., October 10; and International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), January 12, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. The Pitch will also be coming to video video-on on-demand platforms on September 17.
The Pitch: Patient Safety's Next Generation was an Official Selection of Cleveland International Film Festival and made its world premiere there in April. The film comes at a pivotal time as the National Patient Safety Board Act, supported by JHF, was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bipartisan bill would create a National Patient Safety Board to advance safety improvements and innovations such as those seen in the film.
The Pitch was funded by JHF to raise awareness of the opportunity for technological innovation in patient safety. Karen Feinstein was the executive producer of the film, and Ariana Longley and Scotland Huber were co-producers.
The film is inspired by JHF's grant to the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative to fuel the engagement of students and innovators in envisioning transformational approaches to reducing preventable harm from medical errors in its Patient Safety Technology Challenge.