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 Ivy Schamis examine complex questions of collective hate and what restorative justice looks like for the victims involved.

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