Director: Kim A. Snyder Producers: Kim A. Snyder, Maria
Cuomo Cole
Description:
Following
the Sandy Hook Massacre, a priest from Dunblane, Scotland reaches out
to Father Bob offering support 16 years after a school shooting in
his own town. The men bond over personal trauma and responsibilities
… In the aftermath the UK reformed its gun laws; the US responded
with inaction.
Biography: Kim A. Snyder’s previous film was the Peabody award-winning documentary Newtown,
which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was named in Newsweek and Huffington Post among the top films of
2016. Newtown screened at premiere festivals worldwide and was
theatrically released followed by a national broadcast on PBS’s
Independent Lens as the most widely watched documentary of the past
decade. Her most recent film Notes from Dunblane: Lessons from
a School Shooting premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and
was awarded Best Documentary Short. Snyder’s also
directed, Welcome to Shelbyville, that was nationally
broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens.. In 2007, Kim co-founded
the BeCause Foundation to direct and produce a series of socially
conscious short documentaries which have won numerous awards with
campaigns furthering the work of the social innovators they
highlight. She associate-produced the Academy Award-winning short
film Trevor.
Maria Cuomo Cole is the award-winning producer of the feature documentary, Newtown,
that won a Peabody Award and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film
Festival. In her career, she has tackled such relevant subjects as
gun violence, homelessness, veterans’ PTSD, domestic violence and
sexual assault. Most recently, she executive produced The Hunting
Ground, directed by Kirby Dick. This Emmy and Peabody
award-winning film has been lauded as a powerful investigation into
the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. In 2012, Ms.
Cuomo Cole worked with the same film team, executive producing the
2014 Oscar® nominated documentary, The Invisible War. This
groundbreaking documentary about the epidemic of rape and sexual
violence in the U.S. military, which served as a catalyst for federal
legislation and enacted federal policy reforms.
