An image from the documentary. (Image via Teen Vogue)

Parkland School Shooting Documentary by Japanese Filmmaker Shown at NY Film Festival

NEW YORK – A Japanese filmmaker, Emily Taguchi and her team made a documentary about a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. The mass shooting happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in early 2018, and killed 17 lives. They spent months interviewing and researching everything related to the incident.

The documentary, called “After Parkland”, is a 90-minute film and it was premiered last month at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. It shows how the student survivor and mourning families continue their lives after the incident and many of them are taking up a national campaign for stricter gun laws. Taguchi told Kyodo News that the purpose of this film is to show how the families rebuild their lives after a horrifying incident as well as examining the community’s experience through a more human perspective.

The film shows the process of grieving and to prevent school shooting. According to Gun Violence Archive, a Washington-based research group, there were more than 300 mass shooting incidents since 2015. The Parkland’s survivors and families are hoping there will be a strict gun law in the future, to prevent more lives to be taken away.

Taguchi also stated that she wants the festival premiere to be a positive experience. It turns out that the film creates the opportunity to provide another forum for the victims to share their stories.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/feature-japanese-filmmaker-debuts-parkland-school-shooting-documentary