Director: Kim A Snyder Writer: Sam Fuentes Producers: Kim A Snyder, Janique L Robillard and Maria Cuomo Cole
Description:
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 associate produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor.
Maria Cuomo Cole is the Peabody award-winning producer of Newton and Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane. She executive produced The Hunting Ground, a Emmy and Peabody award-winning film that investigates epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. Ms. Cuomo Cole worked with the same film team, executive producing the Oscar-nominated documentary, The Invisible War. This groundbreaking documentary explored the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the U.S. military.
Sam Fuentes - on February 14, 2018 a gunman wielding an AR-15 entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and fired on students, faculty, and staff. Seventeen people lost their lives and many others were wounded. Sam Fuentes was amongst the injured in the Parkland tragedy, and while fortunate to be alive, her body and life changed forever. She has bullet shrapnel permanently embedded in her legs and behind her right eye, and currently manages symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She lost revered friends and faculty members. Despite these tragic events, today, Sam is resolved and committed to a poignant mission: to make sure that no child or adult is devastated by senseless and preventable gun violence ever again. She is currently a film student at Hunter College and lives in New York City.
