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Join Covey Film Festival as they introduce you to Antoinette Tuff who on August 19, 2013, a school bookkeeper, severely depressed that her husband of 33 years had recently left and faced the daunting challenges of raising a son with multiple disabilities and a daughter in law school as a single Mom. Never did she think that she would become a hero saving more than 1,000 lives, a best-selling author, an international celebrity, an expert on community safety, the Founder and CEO of a non-profit, Kids On the Move for Success or a guest of Michelle Obama’s s at the State of the Union Address. The next day, her life changed forever, Antoinette, an accidental hostage negotiator, used her experiences with challenging life issues to successfully convince an armed gunman who entered the Ronal E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy to give her his AK-47. This is the only school active shooter situation in the US that ended without death or injury to school students, faculty, parents or shooter himself. Experience hostage negotiators, law enforcement and community leaders praised her intuitive hostage negioations.

Watch her story unfold in the Covey Film “Faith Under Fire”. Antionette is played by actress Toni Braxton in the film but you can meet Antionette and hear her story.