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shooting in Parkland, FL. Kranz, then a newly minted father and formerly a target of bullies in high school, had to pull his car off the road after hearing the reports.is what emerged as he began to explore the feelings that moment dredged to the surface. “I wanted to tell a story about forgiveness, because I wasn’t really sure how capable of it I was in the most difficult circumstances,” Kranz said.
His exhaustive research into mass shootings led him to zero in on intense but surprisingly peaceful, constructive and ultimately healing meetings between the parents of school shooters and the parents of their victims, with both sides working together to help resolve their respective traumas. “When I came across these meetings, I thought, ‘Well, this is at the very heart of defining forgiveness and figuring out when it’s available to you both to receive it and also to grant it,’ ” said Kranz.
Kranz structured his story around one such extended conversation between two sets of suffering parents in the wake of a school shooting, using his experience as an actor to plumb each character and develop their distinctive points of view as they work through their pain together during an uninterrupted conversation in a single room.
“I want to see four people in real time work through something incredibly difficult, that’s divided them not just across the table but amongst themselves, and see if they can figure it out,” said Kranz. “Because it’s something I think we all can relate to in our own lives.” Click below to see the results of Kranz’s process on the pic, which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021 before hitting theaters in October via
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