The Rural Surgeons
Film
Project
The Project
The Rural Surgeons Film Project is a campaign to bring awareness to just how important rural surgery is to both American health care and economy. Our goal is to actively promote access to quality healthcare for the 60 million Americans living in rural areas.
The Rural Surgeons Film Project includes a feature-length documentary (Code Blue: Resuscitating Rural Surgery), a 6-minute recruitment video for rural surgery (The Calling of Rural Surgery), an online resource for education and improvement, and a turn-key fundraiser to involve local communities.
Filming kicked off June 2, 2012. We are now completed in 2019!
Thank you for helping to reach our
goal!
Bukstein
Burns
Caropreso
Williams
Hughes
Borgstrom
Coughenour
Corrado
Deveney
Special Thanks to:
Donna Glasford Corrado
Peter Corrado
Linda Rosenthal
Dr. & Mrs. Danny Robinette
Melissa Corrado
John & Linda Carlson
The Jacksons
Mr. & Mrs. Erik Debruin
Fadia & Ted Williamson
Jason & Charlotte Corrado
Ben Ellebracht
Cathy & George Hollister
J Patrick Walker MD
Thanks to:
Pat Tracy
Homer & Clementine Hume
Mike Berge
Dan Haskins
Alyse Kuhlman
Dave Paige
Michelle Piole
Connie Maxwell Cox
Daniel & Kara Norman
Michael Potts
Corey Woodruff
Mr. Jim Jerome
Campfire Cassettes
James Gordon
Chris & Amy Nord
Jana Giger & Jeremy Nation
Parish Vaidya, MD
Kayla Watanabe
Darcy Pumphrey
Clare Murray Adams
Chris R. Brown
Jamie Hawkins
Erin & Tony Blaeser
Sarah E. Fleming
Saiid & Melissa Fayad
We made a local newspaper!
Click Here to read The Vandalia Leader article.
The Producer/Director
Meredith Corrado has been working in film and television since 2004. Her first job was in Chicago, coordinating a DVD extra for Universal Studios. From there, she assisted on a documentary feature about George A. Romero. In 2005, Meredith moved out to Hollywood and continues to work on feature films, television shows, and commercial spots for such companies as Warner Brothers, Disney, ABC Family, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Spike, Playboy, History Channel, and Starz.
The Company
Founded in April 2008, Corrado Studios has produced marketing videos, music videos, additional content for a video game, and a conference DVD for a nonprofit organization. We are so excited to share our feature film Code Blue: Resuscitating Rural Surgery!
More importantly to this project, Meredith grew up in Mexico, Missouri (which she still calls home). Her father is a general and vascular surgeon still in practice there. She sees the challenges he faces recruiting to and practicing in a rural area. Meredith believes it's high time she work on something she really cares about: something that can make a difference for her community.
Link to Meredith's credits on the Internet Movie Database.
