PBS Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking will co-present a screening of the acclaimed documentary, Newtown, on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at PBS Hawai‘i, 315 Sand Island Access Road in Honolulu.

Newtown filmmaker Kim A. Snyder is scheduled to appear for a Q&A after the screening. The event is part of “Indie Lens Pop-Up,” a film screening series that brings people together for community-driven conversations about documentaries seen on the PBS series Independent Lens.

There is limited seating available. Those interested in attending should RSVP online at newtownhawaii.eventbrite.com or by phone at 808.462.5030.

Kim Snyder, documentary filmmaker, Manhattan, UWS, New York, NY. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

About Newtown: On December 14, 2012, a disturbed young man committed a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that took the lives of 20 elementary school children and six educators. 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 interviews with parents, siblings, teachers, doctors and first responders, Newtown documents a traumatized community still reeling from the tragedy, fractured by grief but driven toward a sense of purpose.

Nicole Hockley, mother of a Sandy Hook victim, and first responder Sgt. William Cario, embrace after the 2012 tragedy that left 20 schoolchildren and six adults dead.

Newtown premieres on Independent Lens Monday, April 3, 2017, 9:00-11:00 pm on PBS Hawai‘i.