Zachary Levi and Adrianne Palicki Release Poignant School Shooting Short Film ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmily Longeretta “Thoughts and Prayers,” an emotional short film that debuted at Hollyshorts Film Festival and made its rounds at numerous festivals, is now available for global audiences to watch for the first time, exclusively on Variety.
The movie was helmed by Evan Miller, who directed, produced and co-wrote the script with Hardy Janson. Zachary Levi and Adrianne Palicki star in the film and also serve as producers alongside John Trefry and the co-founders of the ATX Television Festival, Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson.
Per the official logline, “A powerful United States Senator lives out every American parent’s worst nightmare when she receives a call from her teenage son and talks him through the horror of an active school shooting as she desperately makes her way to him, unsure of what she’ll find once she arrives.” The inspiration came from Miller — whose parents are longtime educators — and his need to show school shootings as a public safety crisis, not a political issue.
Leading gun safety advocacy group Everytown consulted on the film. “When you come from a family of educators, you aren’t really interested in school shootings as a political football.
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