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“I’m a mother. And I don’t know what to say.”

As active shooter drills become integrated into schools across the country, students must grapple with the threat of school shootings. This is the case for ten-year-old Dezmond Floyd, who has an open discussion with his mother Tanai about what happens in his fifth grade class during his school’s active shooter drills. Dezmond explains step-by-step what his class has been taught to do during an active shooter situation.

Directed by
Richard O’Connor

Executive Producers
Dave Isay
Rachel Hartman

Producer
Shelley Gorelik

Audio Produced by
Jud Esty-Kendall
Jasmyn Belcher-Morris

Supervising Sound Recordists
Gautam Srikishan
Alletta Cooper

Animation by
Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., LLC

Design
Taisiya Zaretskaya

Animators
Emmett Goodman
Pilar Newton

Art Production
Natalie Greene
Wanda Noonan

Original Theme Music
Joshua Abrams

Theme Music Performed by
Joshua Abrams
Hamid Drake
Marquis Hill
Emmett Kelly
Adam Thornburg

Theme Music Mixed by
Joshua Abrams
Neil Strauch

Outro Music
“A Day in Port-Royal” by Ending Satellites
From the Album And so sing the black birds (2013)
Published by Ending Satellites

Special Thanks
Tanai Benard & Dezmond Floyd

In Partnership with
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
NPR
POV

Funding Provided by
Corporation for Public Broadcasting [logo]

A private corporation funded by the American people.

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