Documentary Screening of “Living for 32”

On April 12, four days before the fourth anniversary of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history at Virginia Tech University, the National Press Club will host a screening of Living for 32, a 40-minute documentary about a survivor of that shooting produced by Maria Cuomo Cole and directed by Kevin Breslin (son of legendary New York columnist Jimmy Breslin). Ms. Cole and Colin Goddard, the subject of the film, will attend and discuss the film after it is screened. The event begins at 6 PM in the Zenger Room at the Press Club, 529 14th Street NW on the 13th Floor.

Living for 32 is the story of the recovery and survivor's mission of Goddard, who was shot four times at Virginia Tech and left for dead by the shooter on April 16, 2007. The film was featured at the Sundance Film Festival and has been traveling to college campuses across America since Sundance -- including a melancholy but uplifting homecoming screening at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia across the street from Virginia Tech. That screening inspired a lengthy story in Newsweek magazine in the March 14 issue (www.newsweek.com/2011/03/13/2-405-shot-dead-since-tucson.html). Slated as the cover story, it was bumped off the cover by the earthquake tragedy in Japan.

The film and Goddard's story have been the subject of a column by Bob Herbert of the New York Times and an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor and have been featured on Good Morning America, Oprah and numerous local television news stations nationwide. In early March Goddard took the film to Tucson, Arizona, the site of the infamous January shooting that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords wounded, six dead and 12 others injured.

Goddard, now 26, has become an advocate for reasonable gun laws.

For more information, visit the film's website at www.Livingfor32.com.