'Newtown' Documentary to Screen at SXSW Film Festival

NEWTOWN, CT - The documentary ‘Newtown’ that focuses on the aftermath of the 2012 shooting will screen at the SXSW Film Festival in March.

The documentary has already received many positive reviews from its screening at the Sundance Film Festival. It will be part of the Festival Favorites program.

Indiewire called the documentary “Incisive without becoming exploitative, journalistic without avoiding emotion, and focused entirely, and rightly, on the victims.”

The documentary was filmed over the course of nearly three years. It will premiere in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance in January 2016.

“Newtown documents a traumatized community fractured by grief and driven toward a sense of purpose,” according to the documentary’s website. “Joining the ranks of a growing club to which no one wants to belong, a cast of characters interconnect to weave an intimate story of community resilience.”

Director/producer Kim Snyder has made more than a dozen short documentaries. Her most recent film Welcome To Shelbyville was nationally broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2011.