Kim A. Snyder’s most recent feature documentary, “Us Kids” premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance competition. Prior, she directed the Peabody award-winning documentary “Newtown”, which premiered in the U.S. Competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. “Newtown” screened at premiere festivals worldwide and was theatrically released followed by a national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens and Netflix. Her most recent short, “Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane”, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary Short followed by the DocDispatch Award at the 2018 Sheffield DocFest and a Grierson Award nomination. “Lessons” is a Netflix Original streaming in 196 countries. Snyder’s prior works include the feature documentary, Welcome to Shelbyville, nationally broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2011, and over a dozen short documentaries. Kim’s award-winning directorial debut feature documentary, “I Remember Me” was theatrically distributed by Zeitgeist Films. In 1994, she associate-produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor which spawned The Trevor Project, a national organization addressing LGBTQ suicide. Kim graduated with a Masters in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and resides in New York City.

On February 14, 2018 a gunman wielding an AR-15 entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and fired on students, faculty, and staff. Seventeen people lost their lives and many others were wounded. Sam Fuentes was amongst the injured in the Parkland tragedy, and while fortunate to be alive, her body and life changed forever. She has bullet shrapnel permanently embedded in her legs and behind her right eye, and currently manages symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She lost revered friends and faculty members. Despite these tragic events, today, Sam is resolved and committed to a poignant mission: to make sure that no child or adult is devastated by senseless and preventable gun violence ever again. She is currently a film student at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

Janique L Robillard is an independent documentary filmmaker and freelance producer. Currently, she is producing two films with Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Kim A. Snyder – ”Death by Numbers”, which was nominated for the 2025 Academy Awards®: Best Documentary Short Film, and “The Librarians” (PBS/Independent Lens) which is made its world premiere at 2025 Sundance Film Festival. She was an Associate Producer for Jeremiah Zagar’s “The Fix” docu-series (Roku, 2022), and has developed numerous documentary films and series for acclaimed directors like Lina Plioplyte and clients including Netflix. Her freelance work also includes live action and animated content, broadcast commercials for Nike and other major brands and music videos. Janique actively seeks opportunities to elevate marginalized communities in film, evidenced in her short film “1000 Times” (a women’s MMA documentary) and on-going collaboration with “Free Body Project”, including their short “From There to Here”. Janique earned her B.S. from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and her M.F.A at Maryland Institute College of Art.

Ivy Schamis grew up in Miami, FL and earned a Master's Degree in Social Studies Education from Florida International University in Miami. She and her husband, Jeffrey, moved to beautiful and safe Parkland, Florida in the mid 1990s to raise their family. She taught at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for almost 2 decades when a former MSD student ambushed her History of the Holocaust class in Room 1214 on Valentine's day 2018, injuring 4 students and brutally murdering 2 other students in front of Ivy and the rest of her class. Since that day, she serves as a Gun Violence Prevention advocate and a mentor to her students who will never be the same.