A rare collaboration between shooting survivor / writer Sam Fuentes and Peabody award winning filmmaker Kim A Snyder – Death by Numbers breaks through an American society increasingly inured to gun violence and seemingly impervious to a nation of traumatized youth. Interweaving Sam’s evocative poetry and her shooter’s harrowing sentencing trial that will determine whether he lives or dies, we follow Sam’s journey to reclaim her power. As she prepares to confront her shooter who left her wounded and killed classmates with an AR-15 in her Holocaust Studies class, she and her teacher examine complex questions of collective hate and what restorative justice looks like for the victims involved.
Biography:
Kim A Snyder is a well-known filmmaker who directed the Peabody award-winning documentary Newtown, which screened at premiere festivals worldwide and was theatrically released followed by a national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens and Netflix. Her most recent short, Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Short. Snyder’s prior works include the feature documentary, Welcome to Shelbyville, which was nationally broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens, as well as over a dozen short documentaries and the feature, I Remember Me. Kim also produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor.
Maria Cuomo Cole is a Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker dedicated to creating social impact with films addressing some of the most challenging issues of our day. Through her work as an activist and producer, she has tackled subjects including gun violence, homelessness, Domestic Violence, Veterans' PTSD, and sexual violence. Featured documentaries she has produced include Us Kids, Newtown, The Hunting Ground, and The Invisible War, and the 2009 short documentary Living for 32, which was shortlisted for an Oscar.
