UT Mass Shooting Documentary ‘Tower’ Wins Top Prize at SXSW

By Dan Zimmerman

Keith Maitland’s stylized film Tower (subtitled, When the worst in one man brought out the best in others) won the SXSW Film Festival prize for best documentary. The film combines archival footage, eyewitness accounts and simple animation to tell the story of the 1966 University of Texas mass shooting by Charles Whitman in which 16 died and 32 were injured in what’s called the US’s first campus shooting. While the film takes no political stance, various media outlets have taken the opportunity to connect the film to the fact that, thanks to a new Texas law, licensed UT students will be able to carry concealed handguns on campus this fall. The new law goes into effect on August 1, the 50th anniversary of the Whitman shooting.

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