Award-winning live-action / animated documentary about 1966’s Texas University tower sniper combines archival footage with rotoscopic animation to retell the tragedy entirely from first person testimony
NEW YORK -- Kino Lorber’s Tower reflects on America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others. Tower is an animated and action-packed film and winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, SXSW 2016, and directed by Keith Maitland.
August 1st 1966 was the day our innocence was shattered. A sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event.
TOWER combines archival footage with rotoscopic animation of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes and survivors, in a seamless and suspenseful retelling of the unfolding tragedy. The film highlights the fear, confusion, and visceral realities that changed the lives of those present, and the rest of us, forever - a day when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others
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Source: Kino Lorber
