She didn't notice her injury until they stopped running. “I call it a statement of reality.”īoth Hoff and her husband escaped the concert without any gunshot wounds, although Hoff broke her arm when she slipped and fell trying to run in her cowboy boots. “I don't call it a political statement,” Zirinsky said. The film ends with a slow crawl showing the names of those killed five years ago in Las Vegas, as well as the victims of every mass shooting since that time in the U.S. Even in death, Hoff doesn’t want to give him that wish. It was found that the gunman had searched the internet for “how to be a social media star” in the days before the shooting.
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Almost militantly so: A series of audio news reports included are cut off just before the name is spoken. While the film talks about the gunman, whose motive remains a mystery since he killed himself before police reached him, it pointedly does not mention his name.
Zirinsky, the former CBS News president, produced “9/11,” perhaps the most memorable doc made in the wake of that disaster, and considers “11 Minutes” the most powerful film she's worked on since. In the darkest hours, people found each other.” “There are extraordinary acts of courage and human beings helping human beings,” said Zirinsky, chief of the See It Now Studios production company. “I do like to encourage people that there is goodness in the end, so hang in for that,” she said. Hoff believes that her own experience that night, even though it is not included in the film, helped convince some of those involved to talk. He and Aldean, who gave his first interview about Las Vegas to filmmakers, are important ties to the country community. Warren at first hesitated when asked to participate in the film, dealing with his own PTSD and wary because of past media coverage. “I don't know why you would tell the story if it were easy to watch.” “Is it easy to watch? No, but it shouldn't be easy to watch,” said SiriusXM host Storme Warren, who was onstage in Las Vegas that night.
The experiences of people like Jonathan Smith, a Black concertgoer who had felt unwelcome because of a white man's remark wondering why he was there, and Natalie Grumet, who had just survived cancer, are weaved throughout the story. The cooperation of Las Vegas police was key, bringing footage like the race to hospitals with survivors and the moment when a tactical unit burst into the casino hotel room where the gunman had barricaded himself.
The film takes you vividly inside the event with cellphone and police body-cam footage. They alternated ducking to the ground for cover and running away, depending on when they could hear the gunshots. She turned to look at her husband and saw someone just behind him struck in the face by a bullet. 1, 2017, four rows from the stage as Jason Aldean sang “Any Ol' Barstool.” Hoff heard popping sounds that she and her husband, Shaun, first dismissed as fireworks - not the work of a gunman firing from a nearby hotel window. It seems like a strange sentiment given that Hoff was at the show on Oct. “I've never felt more useful or more like the universe put me exactly where I was supposed to be,” said Hoff, an executive producer of “11 Minutes.” More than three hours long, the four-part documentary debuts Tuesday on the Paramount+ streaming service. The resulting film, “11 Minutes,” is an inside account of the 2017 massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas and, more importantly, about how it reverberated in the lives of those who were there. NEW YORK - A pair of cowboy boots that Ashley Hoff never thought she would see again helped unlock a powerful story about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S.
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