The morbid thought that some of their daughters’ friends and classmates might end up victims to increasing gun violence led husband-and-wife filmmakers David Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness to create the dramatic new CBC-TV miniseries Guns.
TV and film director Sutherland (Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Toronto Stories) says that gun violence has escalated to become a problem for Canadians everywhere, not simply relegated to “bad” areas.
At a recent event with the Toronto couple’s five-year-old daughter, Sutherland recalled thinking “Which one of these five-year-olds will end up lying in an alley alone?” he told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning on Thursday.
The miniseries, which features such Canadian stars as Colm Feore, Shawn Doyle and Elisha Cuthbert, attempts to explore the issue of illegal gun trafficking and the greater impact it has on entire communities and cities.
“It looks at the problem from different levels,” Holness said, “the people who are actually bringing in the guns as well as the people who are impacted — just everyday people and people on the street.”
Guns begins on CBC Television Sunday at 8 p.m., with the second part to follow Monday at 8 p.m.
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