Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane 2018

Overview

Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane is a documentary released in 2018 with a runtime of twenty-three minutes. Following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which resulted in the deaths of twenty first graders and their teachers, a local clergyman named Father Bob Weiss receives a letter. The letter comes from a fellow priest located in Dunblane, Scotland, where the community experienced a nearly identical tragedy in 1996. Across the Atlantic Ocean, the two priests establish a poignant bond built on their shared experiences of trauma and the subsequent healing process. The film explores this connection between the two religious figures as they navigate the profound grief and aftermath of mass violence in their respective school communities.