Friday, November 6, 1:30PM – 3:00PM (PST)
From director Poh Si Teng, American Doctor premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival to overwhelming acclaim. The film has since screened at many of the most prestigious documentary festivals in the world, including True/False, CPH DOX, Visions du Reel, and Hot Docs, and is being released theatrically by Watermelon Pictures.
This event will feature a presentation from the film’s two editors:
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki (Black Box Diaries, The Making of a Japanese)
- Christopher White (Born To Be, The Lincoln Project)
Yamazaki and White will break down key scenes, discuss their edit process, and unpack how they structured the film with their director. The presentation will include rough cut and final cut clips, slides, and conclude with an audience Q&A. Those in attendance are encouraged to come prepared with questions for Yamazaki and White about the film’s edit.
American Doctor is an unflinching documentary portrait of three physicians – one Palestinian, one Jewish, one Zoroastrian – who volunteer in besieged hospitals in Gaza. The film charts both their harrowing work on the front lines of war and their efforts in the U.S. to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind.
This event is part of the “Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors” series, a program hosted by Sundance Collab in collaboration with BIPOC Doc Editors. Follow these links to watch our previous events in this series, which included the films Spermworld, Patrice: The Movie, Sabbath Queen, Cutting Through Rocks, and Come See Me in the Good Light.
