Stories of Tree of Life shooting survivors told in documentary

Stories of Tree of Life shooting survivors told in documentary

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — Filmmaker Trish Adlesic was in Pittsburgh to celebrate her father’s 91st birthday on Oct. 25, 2018. Two days later, a gunman entered the nearby Tree of Life Synagogue and killed 11 people in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history. .

“It shook me to my core,” said Adlesic, who grew up 10 minutes from the synagogue. “I was heartbroken.”

The “Gasland” director was living in New York with her family, but after filming she decided to move back to Pittsburgh to “get down to business.” She would stay there for the next three years, cultivating relationships with survivors and victims’ families to make a movie, “A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting,” which is currently airing on HBO Max.

Adlesic was hesitant, however, to give the story the “true crime” treatment. She had trained in trauma and wanted to be sensitive with the subjects, who opened their homes to her and told her their stories.


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