A new feature length documentary. For release in 2023.
South Florida’s entangled gun environment began more than 500 years ago. So too America’s gun culture. Remedies to our gun divide are evolving here too.
Guns and South Florida go together like palm trees, sand, and art deco hotels. They’ve been here since before anyone can remember and are more numerous than people. From Ponce De Leon’s arrival on Key Biscayne in 1513, to Parkland, we have a long and tangled relationship with guns. We love them, we hate them, and our politics can seem twisted by them with South Florida especially stained by them in the national psyche.
Filming for So Flo Guns began in the immediate wake of the Parkland shooting, February 14, 2018. A month later we documented the March for Our Lives protest on Miami Beach. Later in the spring we interviewed the organizer of a So Flo gun show and documented its goods. Additional interviews, including Dr. Paul George, resident historian of HistoryMiami, took place over the summer. October’s Line in the Sand demonstration on South Beach in which members of Florida Carry took their rifles and sidearms to South Pointe was the last shoot before our December 2021 shoot on Cape Florida.
America is divided along gun lines. Ours is a quixotic belief that it doesn’t have to be this way. Especially since most of our history wasn’t like this. We think it’s helpful for everybody interested in this divide to see the history of South Florida through the eyes of its guns. Even those that like the way things are can agree that their rights – and profits - are at risk. The chasm between us didn’t just appear and has widened over the past few decades. It can be bridged. So Flo Guns can help this come about.
First and foremost, So Flo Guns will entertain. Along with the tragedies South Florida’s gun stories are a colorful palette to work with including Conquistadors, Pirates, Indians, Soldiers, Gangsters, Gangstas, and the colorful pop culture imagery associated with its world famous - and often notorious - ecosystem. Unfortunately, tragedies abound right next to our right to protect ourselves, our homes, even our liberties.
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We've prepared a short video to introduce the film and review its progress since 2018, as well as the impact and plans we have, the team, fundraising, etc.
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