Song of Parkland (2019)
- Directed by
- Amy Schatz
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 28 min
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows drama students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting. It shows them returning to class, continuing a musical, and using art and protest to process trauma.
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What happens
Song of Parkland is a short HBO Documentary film featuring the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama students and their teacher, Melody Herzfeld. Filmed in the months following the shooting at their school, the half-hour documentary follows the students as they return to school and decide to continue with the musical they were working on at the time of the attack. Directed and produced by Amy Schatz, the film includes performances, interviews, songs written by the students about their experience, and scenes from walk-outs and rallies across the country as other young people, inspired by the Parkland activists, take to the streets to call for an end to gun violence. The short film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program. In January 2020, Schatz won the Directors Guild of America Award for Children's Programs for "Song of Parkland". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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