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Keith Maitland and Claire Wilson James Talk About TOWER
Keith Maitland's TOWER reveals the untold stories of the witnesses, heroes, and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, at the University of Texas, 1966. Here Maitland talks about the film's unique production which combined archival footage with rotoscope animation, while survivor Claire Wilson James, the first person shot that day, talks about being able to finally tell her story.
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