Clinica de Migrantes is a 2016 HBO documentary short produced by Third Party Films that investigates the intersection between immigration and healthcare through the work of Puentes de Salud, a volunteer-run network of clinics providing preventive care to the Latino community of South Philadelphia.
Dr. Steve Larson and his team face numerous obstacles as they strive to help the community attain healthcare, when even a basic checkup is fiscally out of reach for many of the patients.
The staffers treat approximately 10,000 patients each year, with little funding and space.
As they plan on moving to a new facility, the viewer is forced to confront questions about how this community, part of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States today, is treated while pushed to the margins of society.
[4] Additionally, it received the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival Norman Vaughan Human Spirit Award (2016)[5] and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Jury Award (2016).