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Conversations Between Shifts

  • October 2021
  • 29mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Ben Basem,

    Ben Basem,

    Eden Strachan,

    Starring

    Jeanette Alvarez-Basem,

    Carmen Lydia Escobar,

    Larry Basem,

    A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and Illinois Nurses Association union meetings, Jeanette navigates what it means to be a nurse and a human during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.