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From the makers of comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue - despite incredible push back, harassment, and traumatic aftermath - both their education and justice.
On college campuses in the United States, every 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their time at school. If the purpose of a documentary is to reveal an injustice or call attention to an issue facing our society, The Hunting Ground (2015), does just that. Its powerful exposé on the epidemic of rape crimes faced by colleges across the United States galvanizes its audience, as well as potential survivors into taking action and speaking out against the institutional denial of these offenses. The film follows the stories of a handful of undergraduate survivors and their cases of sexual assault, as well as the testimony from faculty, students and many of the victims families. The impact on these students lives, as well as their families, is monumental, the response from the schools-appalling. Universities across the nation avoid the issue through the means of victim blaming, harassment and ignorance, which spurs another focus of the film. The stories of two survivors, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, who are combating this issue by raising awareness of rape crimes on college campuses. Using title IX, they are taking matters into a legal lens and getting justice for survivors everywhere. They have developed a national network devoted to education, justice, and getting survivors to share their story. This documentary helps bring the reality of sexual assault on college campuses to the masses and raises the conversation about rape at universities across the United States to a national level.
Andrea Pino
Self
Annie Clark
Self
Claire Potter
Self - Professor of History
Melinda Manning
Self - Assistant Dean of Students, University of North Carolina
Kimberly Theidon
Self - Medical Anthropologist and Former Harvard Professor
Kamilah Willingham
Self
Mrs. Willingham
Self - Kamilah Willingham's Mother
Caroline Heldman
Self - Associate Professor of Politics, Occidental College
David Lisak
Self - Clinical Psychologist
Leslie Strohm
Self - General Counsel, University of North Carolina
Danielle Dirks
Self - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Occidental College
Diane Rosenfeld
Self - Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Pat Cottrell
Self - Former University Campus Police Officer, Saint Mary's College
Rachel Hudak
Self
Carol Ann Mooney
Self - President, Saint Mary's College
Tom Seeberg
Self
Lizzy Seeberg
Self - Tom Seeberg's Daughter
Sofie Karasek
Self
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