“She had watched Invisible War and felt like she wanted to finally speak. “We wanted one story that sort of exemplified what goes on in sports culture,” says Ziering. While this case was covered widely in the press last year, this is the first time Kinsman has come forward publicly. The story in The Hunting Ground that is likely to garner the most attention features Erica Kinsman, the woman who accused rising football star Jameis Winston of rape. This happened to me here.’ It really took us by surprise.” “We started getting e-mails that said, ‘Dear Ms. After screening Invisible War across campuses, they received an overwhelming volume of letters from students asking them to dig into sexual assault at universities. “We weren’t anticipating making another film having to do with sexual assault,” said Ziering, referring to the The Invisible War, her and Dick’s 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary exposing the pervasiveness of rape in the military. That depressing statistic is just one of the many you’ll learn from The Hunting Ground, a new documentary by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering that explores the epidemic of campus rape. The reality is that one in five women who go to college in the United States will be sexually assaulted. If you knew your kid had a one-in-five chance of being the victim of a drive-by shooting at a college, would you want them to go? What if you applied those same odds to rape?
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