Body Team 12 (2015)

Directed by

David Darg

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

13 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short documentary follows a female Red Cross worker in Liberia who collects dead bodies during the Ebola outbreak. It shows her daily work and the emotional toll of the epidemic.

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What happens

Body Team 12 is a 2015 short-documentary film about the Red Cross workers of Liberia, who collected dead bodies during the height of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The story is told by Garmai Sumo, a female worker who served as a nurse during the epidemic. It is directed by David Darg and produced by Darg and Bryn Mooser, while Olivia Wilde and Paul Allen of Vulcan Productions are executive producers. The documentary was well received by critics and earned widespread critical acclaim. It won the Best Documentary Short award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Body Team 12 is nominated for the Documentary Short Subject category at the 88th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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