Sunday, Apr 19, 2026
Death By Numbers
Pre-Fest Engagement
1:00 pm Film and Talkback
$15 General Admission | Sponsors Free
Post-film talkback with subject and writer Sam Fuentes
Live at The Weitzman
Directed by Kim Snyder
Documentary | USA | 2025 | 30 min | English
Four years after being shot with an AR-15 during the Parkland school shooting on February 14, 2018, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.
A rare collaboration between shooting survivor / writer Sam Fuentes and Peabody award winning filmmaker Kim A Snyder – DEATH BY NUMBERS breaks through an American society increasingly inured to gun violence and seemingly impervious to a nation of traumatized youth. Interweaving Sam’s evocative poetry and her shooter’s harrowing sentencing trial that will determine whether he lives or dies, we follow Sam’s journey to reclaim her power. As she prepares to confront her shooter who left her wounded and killed classmates with an AR-15 in her Holocaust Studies class, she and her teacher examine complex questions of collective hate and what restorative justice looks like for the victims involved.
Present by Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media in partnership with The Southeastern Pennsylvania Coalition of Synagogues to Reduce Gun Violence.
Gun violence prevention organizations will be tabling before and after the event to help attendees get involved in the fight against gun violence.
Please reach out to info@phillyjfm.org with any questions.
