Parkland students are featured in ‘Louder Than A Bomb’ documentary
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students were featured in a WTVJ-Ch. 6 documentary Tuesday night on how they used poetry to channel their mix of emotions about the Feb. 14 mass school shooting.
The documentary, called “Louder Than A Bomb: The Parkland Poets’’ follows the Stoneman Douglas students and their English teacher Stacey Lippel coping with their grief through the spoken word.
“It just gives them an outlet to express themselves,’’ Lippel says in the documentary. “It’s really their way to heal.”
“There is power in taking all those like crazy emotions and channeling them into a joint force,’’ added one of the students.
Cameras follow the students as they prepare for “Louder Than A Bomb Florida,’’ a yearly poetry festival for Florida students from Jacksonville to the Keys. The students are seen rehearsing at Lippel’s home and performing on stage in rounds in Boca Raton, Sunrise and Parkland.
“Feb. 14, 2018. The fire alarm rings. Gun shots go off. Chaos,’’ four students begin on stage in one scene where they’re shown wearing burgundy school shirts that say #MSDStrong.
The festival is organized by former Miami Dolphins player Jason Taylor and actor Omari Hardwick of the Starz series “Power.”
The documentary aired Tuesday night on WTVJ and can also be viewed on the station’s YouTube channel.