Threaded throughout, the film follows Annie E. The bombardment of fact, although deftly - and yes, sometimes humorously - delivered through montage sequences, could all too easily lead to viewer compassion fatigue were it not for the adroit way Dick and Ziering cement the story with human interest. Read more Sundance: 5 Hot-Button Docs Set to Make Waves at the Festival
One interviewee puts that in perspective by flipping the script and imagining educational institutions writing to parents to let them know that one in four of their children will be a victim of a drive-by shooting, and then going on to thank them for their tuition fees. For a start, according to studies quoted, approximately 20 percent of students will be sexually assaulted during their college careers. In order to build up that bigger picture, the film presents a dizzying array of young women who have been sexually assaulted on campuses and who are willing to speak bravely about their experiences, interspersed with reams of onscreen statistics that set out the horrifying scale of the problem. Given that the film levels a withering j’accuse against a complex skein of heterogeneous institutions and organizations, it will have a harder road ahead inspiring organizational reform in the same way The Invisible War did, but there’s no doubt it will get audiences debating and talking when it goes on release via RADiUS in March and when it is broadcast later this year on CNN. The result is a shocking but ultimately galvanizing work of reportage that meets the same high standard of their previous collaboration, The Invisible War, about sexual assault in the military.
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St.Dick and his producer Amy Ziering set themselves the ambitious quest of creating a documentary that limns a bigger picture, creating a unifying narrative that makes some kind of larger public sense of what seems on the surface like a series of disparate, intensely private experiences. Stockholm Film Festival 2015: Best Documentary (nomination)
Traverse City Film Festival 2015: Audience Award for Best Documentary Film (nomination) Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) 2015: HMMA Award for Best Original Score – Documentaryīergen International Film Festival 2015: Check Points for Human Rights Award Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2016: Artisan Award Satellite Awards 2015: Satellite Award for Best Original Song Utah Film Critics Association Awards 2015: UFCA Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Women’s Image Network Awards 2015: WIN Award for Outstanding Documentary Film Grammy Awards 2016: Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media (nomination)Īcademy Awards, USA 2016: Oscar for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (nomination) Primetime Emmy Awards 2016: Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, Primetime Emmy Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking (nomination) Scully, Anne O’Shea, Julie Smolyansky, Jacki Zehner Director/Writer: Kirby Dick Producer: Amy Ziering Executive Producer: Amy Blavin, Paul Blavin, Nicole Boxer, Dan Cogan, Bob Compton, Maria Cuomo Cole, Ted Dintersmith, Barbara Dobkin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Amy Entelis, Barbara Gerson, Mark Gerson, Ruth Ann Harnisch, Elizabeth Hazard, Jason Janego, Sarah Johnson, Julie Lépinard, Sébastien Lépinard, Vinnie Malhotra, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Sukey Novogratz, Brian Quattrini, Tom Quinn, Annie Roney, Wendy Schmidt, Regina K. THE HUNTING GROUND premiered in the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonials, the film follows the lives of undergraduate assault survivors who, despite inconceivable push back and harassment, attempt to pursue justice and their education. In THE HUNTING GROUND, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering expose a system of institutional cover-ups, rationalizations, victim-blaming and denials that creates the perfect situation for predators to prey without question. In college, one in five women are sexually assaulted, yet only a fraction of these crimes are reported and even fewer result in punishments for the perpetrators.