03/23/2026
There’s a special fifth-anniversary screening this Saturday, March 28th at 2:30 pm at Windsor’s Capitol Theatre of DISPATCHES FROM A FIELD HOSPITAL – a documentary about the WRH field hospital at St. Clair College that opened in the Spring of 2020.
You can buy tickets online through the Windsor International Film Festival site here - https://windsorfilmfestival.com/film/ST00004102/
or at the Capitol Theatre box office. Tickets are $19 for adults and $13 for students & youth.
Residents of long-term care homes experienced some of the worst impacts of COVID-19, and the public health measures designed to help created a difficult side effect: solitude. As a high-risk population already suffering disproportionately from physical and mental ailments, seniors in long-term care were often cut off from their families to avoid the novel coronavirus. Windsor-based filmmaker Matt Gallagher (director of award-winning TVO Original Prey) witnessed his own father contract COVID-19, which resulted in his transfer to a MASH-style field hospital with 49 of his fellow nursing home residents.
Featuring intimate conversations captured through tablets, smartphones, landlines and letters, the film follows a small group of families, including director Matt Gallagher’s, as they cope with the universal anxieties of the pandemic. Front-line healthcare workers also speak about their unique role in facilitating communication for those separated by quarantine measures.
WATCH THE TRAILER AT THE LINK BELOW:
https://vimeo.com/507636834?fl=ip&fe=ec
