![]() ![]() “ The Hunting Ground” continues Dick and Ziering’s lucid and infuriating investigation of sexual violence, in this case the crime of campus rape and the scandalous lack of response on the part of college administrators and local law enforcement. One can only hope that the team’s new film will go even further. The film helped crystallize a heretofore hidden and underreported issue and catalyze a movement to address it, within the Pentagon and beyond. It was one of the fifteen documentary films shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category in 2016 and won the Stanley Kramer Award.In 2012 filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering made “ The Invisible War,” a documentary about the horrific epidemic of military sexual assault. ![]() Despite its many controversies the Producers Guild Of America nominated the film for the “Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture” award. The film was challenged by the schools that were mentioned, one of the alleged attackers, and even the accuracy of one of the testimonies was challenged. As expected, the film came with very heavy criticism. Something that I also like was that the film didn’t shy away from mentioning the schools that were involved, even ivy leagues such as Harvard University and Yale University. Sexual assault in general is such a sensitive and controversial topic for anyone to speak on and the filmmakers really gave the victims a platform to tell their story. I believe the filmmakers did an amazing job in exposing this topic and exposing some of the top schools involved. You can watch the clip to the statistics here: College Sexual Assault Statistics via "The Hunting Ground". For example, from 2002-2013 The University of Virginia had 205 reported sexual assaults and no expulsions from it however, the school had 183 expulsions from cheating and other honor board violations. There are various statistics sown throughout the film, but there is a point where filmmakers show the numbers of the amount of sexual assaults reported and compare them to the amount of expulsions that come from it. “Rape is a scary word, you don’t want to fall into a category, you don’t want to called a victim.” Annie Clark remembers hers in a similar way, “The first few weeks I made some of my best friends, but two of us were sexually assaulted before classes even started.”Īlthough the film may be difficult to watch while listening to all of these cases on sexual assault and the mistreatment of the victims, the most difficult part to watch were the statistics. “We didn’t talk about it because it was something that we didn’t talk about” she says. ![]() Andrea experienced her sexual assault within her first semester at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The film also follows two survivors, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, who use Title IX to take action against their school and assist other survivors with doing the same. ![]() The Hunting Ground shined light on the actions of administrators at schools such as Harvard, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Amherst College, and Notre dame as well as fraternities such as Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The film captures the stories of men and women of experienced sexual assault on their college campus and the difficulties they faced while attempting to report it to their school. “One in five women in college are sexually assaulted, yet only a fraction of these crimes are reported” ( The Hunting Ground Film, 2017).įrom the creators of The Invisible War, The Hunting Ground is a documentary that exposes rape culture on college campuses. Being unconscious, unable to move, and unable to fight for themselves is something that they don’t anticipate when coming to college. Being out on your own, frat parties, tailgating, Saturday afternoon football games, are just some of the festivities that college students look forward to as they are entering a new chapter of their life. College, described by most as some of the best years in their lives. ![]()
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