Parkland Shooting Documentary Premieres At Tribeca Film Festival

PARKLAND (CBSMiami/AP) — It's been over 14 months since the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claimed 17 lives and injured 17 others.

A documentary of the deadly shooting is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this weekend.

Filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman chronicled families from the Parkland school as they navigated their way through grief and searched for new meaning after the shooting.

The intimate film "After Parkland" features student activist and March For Our Lives co-founder David Hogg and Manuel and Patricia Oliver, who lost their son Joaquin in the shooting.

Victoria Gonalez, a young poet and the girlfriend of Joaquin, is also included in the film along with and Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed. The film follows the subjects as they try to rebuild their lives while still showing up for everyday life including prom and graduation.

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