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Director Zachary Roberts Shares the Ups and Downs of Documenting a School Shooting His Own Brother Committed in ‘Hope’

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Christopher Campbell
Nov 14, 2013
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In 2006, a gunman named Charles Carl Roberts IV entered an Amish school house in Pennsylvania, took the students hostage and then shot ten young girls, five of whom died, before killing himself. There’s a documentary in the works about the tragedy and the aftermath simply titled Hope, and it’s currently on Indiegogo attempting to raise $120k through cro…

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