Orlando Sentinel

MTV’s docuseries “True Life”

- By Hal Boedeker Staff Writer

will follow four Pulse nightclub shooting survivors as they try to move forward after the attack in We Are Orlando episode.

True Life: We Are Orlando, about survivors of the Pulse shooting, will debut at 8 p.m. Aug. 15 on MTV, the channel announced Monday.

“For the first time in the MTV ‘True Life’ franchise’s 18-year history, viewers will meet the subjects and follow their stories as the docuseries is being filmed,” MTV said.

Starting Monday, MTV began releasing videos via Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat Discover and tumblr.

More than a dozen shorts will be released before the TV premiere.

The program explores how four Pulse survivors are moving forward after the attack on the gay nightclub left 49 dead and more than 50 injured.

The TV episode will feature Tony Marrero, who was shot four times, faces a long recovery and deals with the loss of his best friend; Patience Carter and Tiara Parker, who are beginning therapy for what they witnessed during the three-hour standoff; and Joshua McGill, who administer­ed aid to wounded bartender Rodney Sumter.

Other members of the Orlando LGBT community will be featured in the MTV programmin­g.

They “will show their determinat­ion and resiliency as they speak out about how the shooting has changed their entire community,” MTV said.

Politics is also part of the program’s outreach, and viewers can find more informatio­n at MTV’s Elect This campaign.

MTV is calling attention to Adam, an Orlando man and Pulse patron, who is promoting an Elect This Change.org petition that asks Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer to pass an executive order banning the sale of assault weapons like those used in the nightclub massacre.

The petition has nearly 40,000 signatures so far, MTV said.

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