Powerful trailer for the documentary ‘Newton’ from Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo

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‘Newton,’ a documentary by Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo, details the aftermath of the deadliest mass murder of school children in U.S. history

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On December 14, 2012, in Newton, Connecticut, the deadliest mass shooting at a grade or high school took the lives of 20 children under the age of seven and six of their teachers.

From Abramorama and Kim Snyder & Maria Cuomo comes a new documentary that examines how this small community came together after the most unimaginable tragedy.

[box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]Filmed over the course of nearly three years, the filmmakers use unique access and never before heard testimonies to tell a story of the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history on December 14, 2012.[/box]

The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival this year and also played at SXSW, BAMcinemaFest, Montclair, Nantucket and Melbourne Film Festivals. Newtown will open in select theaters on October 7th, and follow with a single nationwide screening on November 2nd via Fathom Events which will also include a live panel discussion moderated by CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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