March 11: 'Hunting Ground' preview
UD to screen film about campus sexual assault, host session with producer
3:33 p.m., Feb. 19, 2015--The Hunting Ground, a documentary about campus sexual assault that premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival, will be shown at the University of Delaware at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Mitchell Hall, followed by a question-and-answer session with the producer.
The event is free and open to the UD community, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at the Trabant University Center box office, and limited to two per University ID.
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The Hunting Ground focuses on the high incidence of sexual assaults on college campuses and the neglect or mishandling of rape complaints by many schools. It includes personal accounts from numerous young women about their experiences, as well as interviews with psychologists and parents.
The film was directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering, the partners who also made the 2012 Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War about sexual assaults in the U.S. military. The Hunting Ground is scheduled to open soon in theatres and to air on CNN later this year.
Ziering, who will take part in a discussion and question-and-answer session with the audience after the UD screening, is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning Los Angeles producer and director. In addition to The Invisible War, her previous films include Outrage, The Memory Thief, Derrida and Taylor’s Campaign, a critically acclaimed documentary about Ron Taylor, a homeless person who ran for a seat on the Santa Monica City Council.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Ziering taught literature and film at Yale University and Bennington College.
Doors to Mitchell Hall will open for the film at 7:40 p.m. A reception with food and refreshments will follow the screening and the discussion session.
The event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy, the Class of 1955 Ethics Endowment Fund, UD Student Wellness and Health Promotion, and the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Committee.
For a flyer about the screening, click here.