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    Louder Than Guns
    ABOUT THE PROJECT

    LOGLINE
    A musical journey and an open conversation about gun violence and gun rights in America, with Ketch Secor, David Greene, and Old Crow Medicine Show.

    SYNOPSIS
    In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, this time at Covenant School in Nashville, Ketch Secor, lead singer of the popular country-bluegrass band Old Crow Medicine Show, decided it was time to speak out on gun reform. He wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled, “Country Music Can Lead America Out of Its Obsession with Guns.” This caught the attention of Ketch’s friend, public radio journalist David Greene, and the two set out to kickstart open and productive conversations about gun rights and gun violence in America.

    Film director Doug Pray followed them as the band toured rural and urban communities, creating the documentary LOUDER THAN GUNS, named after a song Secor wrote for the victims of the Covenant shooting. Known for their signature song “Wagon Wheel,” Old Crow Medicine Show attracts a wide demographic of music fans, stretching to the furthest ends of today’s culture wars. People in the front row of their concerts represent people who’d never agree on anything besides the music they love, providing Ketch, David, and this film with one of modern America’s rarest opportunities: the chance to engage with one another respectfully, despite our differences.

    LOUDER THAN GUNS brings together the frustrations and hopes of citizens who are asked to listen to one other and try to find common ground on this incendiary and profoundly American issue. Led by Secor and Greene, these emotional and inspiring discussions, in BBQ joints, barbershops, gun stores, church pews, and concert halls, are the opposite of the divisive political diatribes that define our times. LOUDER THAN GUNS shows how localized, community-led discourse has the power to move the needle on gun reform in ways that today’s polarized media and politicians rarely achieve.

    PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature

    DIRECTOR Doug Pray
    SCREENWRITER Ketch Secor, David Greene
    PRODUCER Stephanie Meurer, Ashley York, Doug Pray
    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ketch Secor, David Greene, Foster Phillips
    CO-PRODUCER Sally Williams, John Fee, Diana Rathe Pray
    IMPACT PRODUCER Courtney Spence

    WEBSITE louderthanguns.com

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