directed by: Luke Lorentzen, year: 2019
actors: Ochoa family

Midnight Family follows the Ochoa family in Los Angeles as they operate private ambulances, racing to emergencies to earn life-saving fees in a system driven by demand and costly hospital bills. The film offers an intimate, high-stakes portrait of brothers balancing risk, loyalty, and debt while navigating gear failures, legal limits, and city bureaucracy. A tense, humane, vérité-style study of survival, family, and what it costs to be first on the scene.

Heroic Rescue, Documentary, Nonfiction, Ethnographic Documentary, Medical, Urban Life, Social Issues