PITTSBURGH — Trish Adlesic happened to be in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018. She had arrived in town two days earlier from upstate New York to celebrate her father’s birthday at her childhood home in the North Hills. Two days later, she found herself at the epicenter of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history when 11 worshipers were gunned down at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill.
“It was overwhelming, the thought of this happening and the agony being inflicted on these beautiful families,” Adlesic told the Post-Gazette. “I was in a state of shock. It was heart-wrenching on every level, and I wanted to respond.”
Adlesic is an entertainment industry veteran and co-director of the 2017 documentary “I Am Evidence,” which focuses on how police departments nationwide handle sexual assault cases. Within days of the shooting, Adlesic had already assembled a local team and begun filming the aftermath of the tragedy and how it was impacting her hometown.
