By and large, Dick encourages his audience to believe the victims, disrupting a deeply rooted culture of containment veiled from public attention.ĭespite constructing its story via the overused formula of talking heads and statistics, the film hits the main artery by giving voice to the silenced (some, like Erica Kinsman, who accused Florida State’s star quarterback Jameis Winston of rape, speak here publicly for the first time). With Rolling Stone’s recent incomplete reporting of the UVA rape case still fresh in memory, the timely Hunting Ground repeatedly reminds viewers that false reports of sexual assault account for less than 10 percent of charges brought. military), writer-director Kirby Dick again teams with producer Amy Ziering, to take on reputable colleges that systematically ignore the issue of campus rape, thereby enabling serial predators. In this harrowing, high-impact follow-up to The Invisible War (on the rape epidemic within the U.S.
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