Well, first,

thanks for having me.

The way it started was I was approached by Steve Hartman, who, as you mentioned, is a CBS News correspondent.

You may have seen him on shows like CBS Sunday Morning or CBS Evening News, where he often does the piece that's at the very end of the broadcast.

that is sort of uplifting and gives us hope about humanity.

And he reached out to me with a project he was working on that was very different from anything he had done before.

And he explained to me that he had been writing letters to every family who lost a child to a school shooting since Sandy Hook.

Overall, do you have a sense that, I mean, we are moving on faster after school shootings, we are forgetting more rapidly, and do you think that this media of filmmaking will somehow trigger a change with that rapid forgetting?

Talk about your, your kind of thought about the ethics of journalism and the slant that this film takes on that phenomenon.

Sure.

I mean, there's so much coverage of these acts, these events.

Uh, they've already been covered, um, ad nauseam, and often from the point of view of who was the shooter, what's their story, why did they do it, what happened, where...

You know, how many people died? Um, what are the details of that? We've all seen those reports.

We're numb to those reports.

Oftentimes they sort of center the reporting around the, the shooter, and we just wanted to do something that was really different.

I can't imagine what I do next," you know? And he's like, "It was weirdly like kind of the most depressing end to the most amazing night of my life." And, and so I guess I'm asking you d- sort of are you envisioning where it will go, and then when you get there, what does it feel like?

Tell me a little bit about why you wanted to capture this on film.

Well, I was approached by Steve Hartman, and he told me about the project he was doing, going into the bedrooms with a photographer taking pictures.

And he thought, you know, he wondered if there, if there could be a film, a documentary.

And, you know, I have two little girls myself who are five and nine, and I was immediately struck by the approach and by the, the idea of reframing this issue a- away from the political debate we have here.

You know, in the US there, there are over 100 school shootings a year now, and, uh, gun violence is the number one cause of death for children in the US.

So it's, it's a, it's a big issue, and it's an issue that is debated in a way that is, um, all about guns and whether we should ... whether you've got enough guns or too many guns, and the debate has gotten nowhere.

And these school shootings continue to, to happen at this rate, this crazy rate.

What difference does that make?