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AFTER TILLER

A powerful new documentary that goes inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide thirdtrimester abortions Real-to-Reel: A Documentary Film Series Sponsored by Stuart & Ginger Polisner Live via Skype: Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman
In Person: Filmmaker MARTHA SHANE

Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in May 2009, there are only four American doctors left who openly provide third-trimester abortions. After Tiller paints a complex, compassionate portrait of 2TillerMartha-Lana-208-2these physiciansDr. LeRoy Carhart, Dr. Warren Hern, Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sellawho have become the new number-one targets of the anti-abortion movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients' lives. The film weaves together revealing, indepth interviews with the doctors with intimate vérité scenes from their lives and inside their clinics, where they counsel and care for their anxious, vulnerable patients at an important crossroads in their lives. By sharing the moving stories of several of these patients, After Tiller illuminates the experiences of women who seek late abortions and the reasons why they do so. Directors Martha Shane and Lana Wilson have created a moving and unique exploration of one of the most incendiary topics of our time, and they've done so in an informative, thought-provoking, and compassionate way. USA, 2013, 88 min., Color, Rated PG-13, DCP | Directors: Martha Shane and Lana Wilson | 2013 Sundance Film Festival | 2013 True-False Documentary Film Festival | 2013 BAMcinemaFest | 2013 AFIDOCS