NEW DIRECTORS/ New films 2019

[Chris Knipp]

MIDNIGHT FAMLY (Luke Lorentzen 2019)

Another high-profile item of the New Directors series, winner of the Sundance Documentary Cinematography award for its striking images of the Ochoas, who man a private ambulance in Mexico City. There are only 45 municipal ambulances for over nine million people, so the private, not exactly legal ones try to make money filling the gap. It ain't easy. An exciting, sad, and highly entertaining film. Lorentzen worked alone in the vehicle with the team on many long nights, shot alone with two cameras, and did his own editing. He's young.