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This Physician Saw Countless Preventable Injuries on Film Sets, So He Made a Doc About It

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A physician-turned-filmmaker exposes the shocking lack of safety on movie sets, driven by his firsthand experiences with preventable on-set injuries.
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  • Dr. Paul Heinzelmann, a physician who worked on film sets, was so disturbed by the number of preventable accidents he witnessed that he decided to make a documentary about it.
  • Heinzelmann's doc will shine a light on the industry's tendency to prioritize production speed and cost-cutting over worker safety, with real-life stories of filmmakers who were left injured or even killed due to lax safety protocols.
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