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Austin filmmaker Keith Maitland talks about documentary TOWER, including why he chose animation and working with real-life heroes of 1966 Texas shooting.
Keith Maitland (Director/Producer/Editor) was drawn to the story of the Texas Tower shooting when he first heard about the shooting from an eyewitness — his seventh-grade history...
Feb 8, 2017 · Fourteen people were killed by a sniper at the University of Texas on Aug. 1, 1966. But director Keith Maitland says people were "encouraged to move forward and not linger in the terrible...
Oct 14, 2016 · Keith Maitland’s film weaves together archival footage and animation to show how the University of Texas sniper attack of August 1, 1966 unfolded, in real time. One of the victims of the University of Texas tower shooting is carried across the campus to a waiting ambulance on Aug. 1, 1966 in Austin. Twenty years ago, as an incoming freshman ...
Oct 10, 2016 · Keith Maitland’s tense documentary Tower reconstructs the horror of that day by seamlessly blending rotoscoping animation with archival footage, then introducing present-day interviews to...
Tower is a 2016 American mostly-animated documentary film about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin directed and produced by Keith Maitland. The film follows the shooting from the perspectives of several survivors, recreating their recounts via actors filmed and later animated in rotoscoping.
Aug 1, 2020 · But award-winning 2016 documentary Tower by Austin director Keith Maitland restores their legacies, and their humanity.
Oct 11, 2016 · Keith Maitland’s documentary on the University of Texas tower mass shooting breathes life into victims rather than dissecting the shooter.
Oct 14, 2016 · Tower director Keith Maitland filmed real actors, then he laid animation over them. Kino Lorber. Tower is an animated documentary that tells the story of a massacre that happened 50 years ago and...
The History Film Forum opens with a discussion with South by Southwest Grand Jury award-winning director Keith Maitland on his use of archival material and animation in his groundbreaking film Tower. On August 1st, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for ...
