The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut ¬ took a nation’s breath away. “I don’t think that any of us who were in there feel that anybody needs to know specifically what we saw,” a responding police officer says in the 2016 documentary Newtown. But “emotionally, I think the world needs to know, to understand it.”

Newtown uses deeply personal testimonies in telling the story of the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting. The Library and KCPT-TV screen the picture as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up community cinema initiative, and a subsequent discussion is led by representatives of Moms Demand Action, Grandparents Against Gun Violence, Kansas City Outrage, and Seven Days.