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Trailer Watch: How College Campuses Became ‘The Hunting Ground’ for Rapists

The first trailer has arrived for The Hunting Ground, and it is heartbreaking and frustrating, which is to be expected given its subject matter: the ubiquity of sexual assault on U.S. campuses and the rape culture within those institutions that denies survivors justice.

This timely doc, one of our most anticipated features coming out of Sundance 2015, is Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s follow-up to the incisive The Invisible War.

This trailer shows how colleges and universities, in a desperate bid to protect their star athletes and brands and to avoid bad press, silence and disenfranchise students who have been sexually assaulted. We see first-hand accounts from sexual-assault survivors who were victim-blamed and told not to wear short skirts in public or go to the police, ultimately being treated as though their voices and experiences didn’t matter. The spot highlights sexual assault survivors who have become activists struggling to address this national crisis — and to have it acknowledged as such.

We’re standing by our prediction: This will be essential viewing.

The Hunting Ground will premiere at Sundance on January 23.


Watch: “Rogue One” Clips Tease More of the Latest “Star Wars” Heroine

In anticipation of the arrival of our next “Star Wars” heroine, some new clips and featurettes from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” have been released. Hitting theaters on December 16,...

Watch: A Female Comedian’s Looks Are Torn Apart by “The Focus Group”

Comedian Sara Benincasa has dreamed up hilarious and horrifying nightmare fodder. Imagine having your style and body mercilessly evaluated by a focus group while in a state of undress. Now witness...

Trailer Watch: The King and the President Cross Paths in Liza Johnson’s ‘Elvis & Nixon’

It takes a lot of chutzpah to send the President of the United States a letter that reads, “I can and will do more good if I am made a Federal Agent at large” — especially when such a...

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