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March 22, 2017WMHT & The Chatham Film Club Present a Special Indie Lens Pop-Up Screening of Newtown
Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, Independent Lens, and WMHT, presents a free community screening and discussion of Newtown, Saturday, March 25, 2017 at noon at the Crandell Theatre in Chatham, New York. This Indie Lens Pop-Up event is a partnership between WMHT and The Chatham Film Club. Newtown premieres on Independent Lens on Monday, April 3, 2017 at 9:00-11:00PM on WMHT.
On December 14, 2012, a disturbed young man committed a horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that took the lives of 20 elementary school children and six educators. Kim A. Snyder’s searing new documentary Newtown, filmed over the course of nearly three years, uses deeply personal, never-before- heard testimonies to relate the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history. Through raw and heartbreaking interviews with parents, siblings, teachers, doctors and first responders, Newtown documents a traumatized community still reeling from the senseless tragedy, fractured by grief but driven toward a sense of purpose.
The panelists at the free community screening include: Bill Sherlach, board member of Sandy Hook Promise and widower of Mary Sherlach, one of the six adults murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School; Amy Potter, Principal of Chatham Middle School; and Father Gary Gelfenbien, St. James Roman Catholic Church (retired). Thomas A. Chulak owner of the Chatham Book Store, will moderate the conversation. The Crandell Theatre is located at 48 Main Street Chatham, NY 12037.
