Directors Lasse and Frida Barkfors are pitching their new documentary project, “School Shooters,” at Idfa’s Forum.“Shooters” plumbs the phenomenon of school massacres, whose authors are often kids attending the same centers.
But it takes a novel approach, focusing on the parents of the shooters.
What happen to those parents when they learn that it was their child pulling the trigger?The documentary feature will be produced by Copenhagen-based, and twice Oscar-nominated, production company Final Cut for Real, the company behind Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence”), as well as Frida and Lasse Barkfors’ De Andra Films, based in Trelleborg, Sweden.
Final Cut for Real was founded in 2009 by producers Signe Byrge Sørensen and Anne Köhncke.The feature will be made for Danish pubcaster Dr and Swedish pubcaster Svt, with support from Film i Skåne and Creative Europe.It will mark the third
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