Death By Numbers

Screening:
Death By Numbers

Sunday, March 16, 2025 · 3 – 5pm

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451

Oscar-nominated documentary Death by Numbers (@deathbynumbersthefilm) turns an intimate lens on school shooting survivor Sam Fuentes’s journey to reclaim her power, processing trauma through journaling. To prepare for a confrontation with her assailant in his harrowing sentencing trial, she examines complex questions of collective hatred and community justice.

The film is a collaboration between shooting survivor/writer Sam Fuentes and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Kim A Snyder. Interweaving Sam’s evocative poetry and her shooter’s harrowing sentencing trial that will determine whether he lives or dies, Death by Numbers breaks through to an American society increasingly inured to gun violence and seemingly impervious to a nation of traumatized youth. 

Kim A. Snyder (@kasnyderfilms) is an award-winning filmmaker whose latest feature, Us Kids, premiered in the 2020 Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition. She previously directed Newtown, a Peabody-winning documentary that debuted at Sundance 2016 and aired on PBS’s Independent Lens and Netflix. Her short, Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane, won Best Documentary Short at Tribeca 2018 and is a Netflix Original streaming globally. Snyder’s past work includes Welcome to Shelbyville (PBS) and I Remember Me (Zeitgeist Films). She associate-produced the Oscar-winning short Trevor, which led to The Trevor Project. She holds a master’s from Johns Hopkins SAIS and lives in NYC.



Sam Fuentes was in high school on February 14, 2018, when 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.