CATCHING BULLETS
PRESENTED BY: Online Event
The Meaningful Movies High School Group, MM Tacoma and MM Spokane invite you an unforgettable online screening of the feature documentary, Catching Bullets. A powerful documentary that highlights the gun violence epidemic in St. Louis, MO. The film follows Darren Seals of Sankofa Unity Center, a former gang member shot 13 times, as he rebuilds a church in an impoverished neighborhood, hoping to open a mentoring center. When Preston, the 15-year-old son of Darren’s late friend, is tempted by the allure of street-level drug dealing, Darren pledges to save Preston from winding up in a jail cell or worse.
Catching Bullets chronicles efforts to treat violence as a public health concern and endeavors to attach a human face to the issue of community gun violence. Director Ben Scholle in attendance.
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Event Details:
📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026
🕚 Time: 1:30 PM PDT
📍 Location: Online
🎟️ Admission: Free!
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This event is open to everyone of all ages: students, educators, families, and anyone passionate about social justice and advocacy.
Join us for a post film discussion with Director Ben Scholle.
Ben Scholle is a filmmaker and professor of cinema at Lindenwood University in St. Louis, MO. His work focuses primarily on social justice topics, and Catching Bullets is his third feature documentary as a director.
Precious Jones is the Founder of Breaking Generational Poverty Foundation, Inc. and a nationally recognized community advocate working to end youth and community violence by transforming pain into purpose in memory of Preston, her son, & Paul Jones.
About Our Event Sponsors:
The Faces Not Forgotten Project offers comfort to families of young gun violence victims (age 20 and under) by creating hand-painted portrait quilt panels of their children and exhibiting these fine art quilts—with family permission—in communities nationwide to honor their lives, ensure they are not forgotten, and shift public perception to inspire action against gun violence.
Thank you to Meaningful Movies Spokane and Meaningful Movies Tacoma for co-hosting the screening with us.
Special Guests: Ben Scholle
Release Year: 2025
Running Time: 1 hr 23 mins
Director: Ben Scholle
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Jump into a conversationGreat movie showing reality of the danger in our cities and how we never can say when violence will strike
Thank you, Jim, for your feedback about the upcoming screening event on Catching Bullets. I hope you would share about the screening with your community at A Second Chance at Life. Our High School Group has been working hard to put this event together. They will be opening the event by sharing why this topic is so important to them. We hope to see you at the screening on Saturday!