What People Are Saying

January 21, 2017

Boston Globe: That terrible day in Austin

There’s a moment about three-quarters of the way through “Tower” that took my breath away — and I was already holding my breath. I won’t tell […]
January 21, 2017

Chicago Reader: Tower revisits the 1966 sniper killings at the University of Texas

Animation has come to play a greater role in documentaries, and it dominates the action of Tower to powerful dramatic effect. Maitland interviewed surviving eyewitnesses, cast […]
January 21, 2017

Chicago Sun-Times: Gripping Documentary draws from a horrific shooting

Today’s college-American has never known a time when campus and school shootings haven’t been a tragically consistent element in the fabric of society. It wasn’t always […]
January 21, 2017

SF Chronicle: Terrific ‘Tower’ examines 1966 Texas shootings with animation

Keith Maitland’s powerful and emotional documentary “Tower” — easily one of the best films of the year — takes a novel approach for a nonfiction film:aAnimation. […]
January 21, 2017

Dallas Morning News: Remarkable ‘Tower’ returns us to a fatal day in Austin history

The remarkable new documentary Tower takes us back to a time before school shootings were a national epidemic, a time when America’s innocence could be blown […]
January 21, 2017

Seattle Times: ‘Tower’: a surreal, you-are-there look at 1966 mass shooting

The interweaving of animation and non-animated footage gives the picture a kind of surreal quality that befits the sense of the survivors of how unreal the […]