#Sexual Abuse
Pic About USA Gymnastics Sex Abuse Scandal Whistleblower Rachael Denhollander On the Way
Rachael Denhollander, a survivor of sexual predator and pedophile Larry Nassar, will soon have her story told on the big screen. The lawyer, advocate, and former gymnast’s 2019 memoir,...
Hot Docs 2022 Women Directors: Meet Pauline Beugnies – “The End of Innocence” (“Petites”)
Pauline Beugnies is an author, photographer, and director from Belgium. For 10 years, she has been documenting the emancipation of youth in Egypt in multiple forms: photo exhibitions, 2012 web...
Hot Docs 2022 Women Directors: Meet Jasmín Mara López – “Silent Beauty”
Jasmín Mara López is a journalist, audio producer, and documentary filmmaker living between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México, her childhood was affected...
Amy Berg Docuseries About Grooming in the Works at Freeform
Amy Berg’s latest project, “Phoenix Rising,” debuted on HBO last month. The documentary miniseries sees “Westworld” actress Evan Rachel Wood revisiting the emotional,...
Aisha Tyler to Direct Psychological Thriller About Institutional Abuse “Silent John”
Aisha Tyler has booked her next directing gig. The “Criminal Minds” star, who most recently helmed an episode of The CW’s “Roswell, New Mexico,” is set to step behind...
Trailer Watch: “Allen v. Farrow” Goes Behind the Scenes of Hollywood’s Biggest Scandal
“It doesn’t matter what’s true. What matters is what’s believed,” says Mia Farrow in a new trailer for “Allen v. Farrow.” Hailing from “On the...
Teaser Watch: Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick Revisit the Allegations and Headlines of “Allen v. Farrow”
Chances are, even if you’re unfamiliar with Mia Farrow as an actress or have never seen a Woody Allen movie, you know about their shared history. Farrow and Allen’s daughter, Dylan...
Trailer Watch: Jeffrey Epstein Docuseries “Filthy Rich” Highlights a Broken System
An investigation into the life and death of disgraced tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, Lisa Bryant’s upcoming four-part Netflix docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” also spotlights a...
Television Academy Announces 2020 Honorees: “Unbelievable,” “Queen Sugar,” & More
Another industry event has been “postponed indefinitely” on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Variety reports that the 13th annual Television Academy Honors awards ceremony won’t go...
Trailer Watch: “Surviving R. Kelly’s” Impact Is Explored in Follow-Up Docuseries “The Reckoning”
“Whoever’s acting like they didn’t know is lying,” an interviewee says about R. Kelly’s decades of sexual abuse. “Black women had been talking about this story...
Patricia Heaton to Produce Project Based on Julie K. Brown’s Jeffery Epstein Articles
As we previously reported, Lifetime is following up their four-part series “Surviving R. Kelly” with an in-depth look at Jeffery Epstein directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern. Now,...
“Surviving Jeffrey Epstein” Docuseries & “Surviving R. Kelly” Follow-Up in Dev at Lifetime
Lifetime’s groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” provided survivors of the singer’s sexual abuse a prominent platform in which to share their stories...
Hot Docs 2019 Women Directors: Meet Baljit Sangra – “Because We Are Girls”
Baljit Sangra uses documentary and factual entertainment to explore social and cross-cultural issues. A three-time Leo Award nominee, Sangra’s films have premiered at festivals around the world....
Jessica Barth and Caitlin Dulany Launch Voices in Action to Combat Sexual Misconduct
Jessica Barth and Caitlin Dulany met under strange and difficult circumstances. They and nine other women were being filmed at a coffee shop while discussing personal trauma. All 11 of them had...
Time’s Up UK Donates £1 Million to Support Sexual Harassment and Abuse Survivors
The Justice and Equality Fund, the UK counterpart to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, has drawn £1 million (about $1.3 million USD) in order to make its first major donations. Only eight...
HBO Acquires Rights to “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal”
HBO has snagged the worldwide rights to Erin Lee Carr’s “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal.” The premium cable network announced the news in a press release,...
R. Kelly Doc in the Works at BuzzFeed and Hulu, Lyric Cabral to Direct
Pleas to #MuteRKelly are being heard. It looks like we’re about to hear much less of the singer’s music and much more about his decades of alleged abuse. Lifetime already announced that...
Thandie Newton Reveals Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Unnamed Director
Actress Thandie Newton, who will soon appear in HBO’s upcoming series “Westworld,” told a troubling story to W Magazine recently about her sexual abuse at the hands of a director for whom she...