The Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health (CREPH) is a commission of the Connecticut General Assembly. It studies racial and ethnic inequities in health and makes policy and systems recommendations to the legislature and state agencies to eliminate them.
Inform Connecticut legislators and policy staff about the impact of federal Medicaid and Access Health CT changes, in a film short enough to open a policy forum. The goal was to make the room understand that coverage loss is not a narrow problem, and that it reaches hospitals, clinics, providers and every town in the state.
We filmed seven interviews in Hartford, mostly around the State Capitol and the Legislative Office Building, and kept every speaker on-lens and in their own words. The voices were Pareesa Charmchi Goodwin (Executive Director, CREPH), Dr. Brittany Liebla (addiction medicine, CHR), PATH-CT, Ayesha Clarke (Health Equity Solutions and CREPH co-chair), Dr. Sama Alvi (family medicine, Greater Hartford), Barry Simon (Easterseals Oak Hill) and Mark Schaefer (Connecticut Hospital Association). Simple purple data cards carried the policy points, like what uncompensated care does to a hospital. The edit closed on a shared call to action in every speaker's voice. From the same shoot we then cut 20 short vertical videos the Commission and its partners could use after the forum.
The seven-and-a-half-minute documentary opened the Commission's forum on health coverage. Pareesa's first lines in the film introduce the event itself: "In today's forum, you'll hear about what's changing and what can be done to protect Connecticut residents." The same shoot also produced 20 short vertical videos. One production gave the Commission a forum opener for lawmakers and a library of short pieces to keep the message moving.
The Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health is a body of the Connecticut General Assembly. Its job is to recommend policy and systems changes that close racial and ethnic gaps in health. In 2025 it had a clear and urgent message: federal changes to Medicaid, known in Connecticut as HUSKY, and to Access Health CT were about to push people off their coverage.
The audience was legislators and policy staff, and the setting was a policy forum. What the Commission needed was a film that made that forum land in its first few minutes.
So we built the film around the people who would feel the cuts first. Executive Director Pareesa Charmchi Goodwin opens it: "Over 100,000 Connecticut residents are projected to lose their health coverage in the coming years, starting in the next few months." Then the system speaks for itself. An addiction-medicine nurse practitioner, a community health worker organization, the Commission's co-chair, a hospital physician, the head of a disability services provider and the Connecticut Hospital Association each explain what coverage loss does in their part of Connecticut.
The film ends on one line, said again and again by everyone in it: "Connecticut needs to make a plan to stop the coverage crisis."
The people who commissioned this campaign, on camera and unscripted.
Screens from the feeds this work was made for.
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