Sundance 2020: Kim Snyder's US KIDS

Student activist Emma Gonzalez in US KIDS. source: Sundance

Sundance is only a few weeks away and there are plenty of more films by Woodstock Film Festival alumni that deserve your attention as you make the journey out west. This time we have US KIDS, a timely documentary by award winning filmmaker Kim Snyder (NEWTON, I REMEMBER ME).

Following the devastating 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Snyder spends 18 months following the students, parents, and activists of Parkland, Florida as they channel their trauma into kickstarting a national movement for gun control reform. With intimate access to the teens and their families, Snyder’s film promises to show the innocence and inner strength of youth trying to make a difference in a world that’s already taken so much from them.

Kim Snyder is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose Netflix short LESSONS FROM A SCHOOL SHOOTING: NOTES FROM DUNBLANE screened at the 2018 Woodstock Film Festival. In 2007, Kim co-founded the BeCause Foundation to direct and produce a series of socially conscious short documentaries which have won numerous awards.