Still making the rounds on the festival circuit, Case 219 is an intense dramatic film that deals with teenage school violence and the ramifications it causes. It stars Evan Ross, Levin Rambin, Taylor Nichols, Melora Walters and Harold Perrineau.

Based on the novel Shooter by Walter Dean Myers, the story of a high school shooting rampage unfolds in a series of tense and suspenseful documentary style interviews conveyed through the eyes of a Los Angeles Times journalist. The film penetrates the everyday lives of the shooter’s best friends and family in pursuit of learning what triggered the violent acts. These provocative and haunting interviews leave the audience with the dilemma of who is really to blame.

Director and screenwriter James Bruce discovered the book Shooter when his teen-age son, Samuel, handed it to him and said, “Dad, you should make a movie out of this book.” After reading Shooter, Bruce concurred.

Perrineau, who’s also an executive producer of the film, felt a connection to the material based on his own background. “Being a product of an inner city school where this type of violence was a regular occurrence it’s always been important to me, to look into why these things occur and see if there is a way to recognize the signs to stop the violence before it happens. For me Case 219 begins that conversation. A conversation that is long over due,” he said.

No word on when and what format the film will be nationally released. You can learn more about the film here. Below is the trailer.