It’s ‘sloppy sex,’ it’s ‘hookups gone bad.’ I think our film radically shifts the perspective and says, ‘Actually, no. The common conception right now, even with all the press, is he said, she said. Ziering recently explained the impetus for the movie to Vice: “It’s a problem of people not understanding. That film won the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the 2012 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, and the 2014 Emmy Award for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism. It introduces America to two authentic heroes: survivors Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, who developed the strategy of using Title IX legislation to fight back.įilmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering are known for their powerful chronicles of sexual assault: They recently helmed Oscar-nominated The Invisible War, a searing investigation into the rape epidemic within the U.S. The Hunting Ground blends raw footage with first-person testimonies, following real survivors and their families as they cope with retaliation, harassment, pushback and university efforts to downplay and deny assaults. It’s the first time that campus assault has been confronted this way on film. With this unflinching expose, sexual assault on college campuses gets the film treatment it deserves-a piercing, in-depth, journalistic look at the terror so many survivors face when coming forward. The Hunting Ground opens in select theaters this weekend.

The gripping film chronicles college sexual assault survivors’ struggle for justice.

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