Amy Goodman on "The Hunting Ground" release yesterday--campus sexual assault documentary

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"The Hunting Ground" --a documentary
Amy Goodman's EXCELLENT coverage yesterday on the release at Sundance of the documentary about campus sexual assault:

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/28/the_hunting_ground_film_exposes_how

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Here is a trailer for the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422503916&v=XOujlVu5-kA&feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-cl=85027636

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?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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1. K&R

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2. K&R

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3. Please kick for this documentary today

...if you think the issue is important.

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4. Anywhere we can watch the documentary?

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5. Looks like it's going to theatres first

http://www.thehuntinggroundfilm.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/movies/the-hunting-ground-a-film-about-rape-culture-at-colleges.html?_r=0

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6. Also--it's a CNN sponsored film

http://www.cnn.com/shows/cnn-films

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7. One story

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/24/jameis-winston-s-rape-accuser-tells-all-in-sundance-documentary-the-hunting-ground.html

Jameis Winston’s Rape Accuser Tells All In Sundance Documentary ‘The Hunting Ground’

Erica Kinsman, who accused the Heisman Trophy-winning Florida State quarterback of a brutal sexual assault, opens up about her ordeal in filmmaker Kirby Dick’s harrowing doc.

It was one of the most thrilling finishes in college football history. On January 6, 2014, down by 4 points with 17 seconds left in the game, redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston, who weeks earlier had become the youngest Heisman Trophy winner ever, executed a beautiful 2-yard play-action pass over the middle to receiver Kelvin Benjamin for the game-winning touchdown, thus capping off a furious comeback over No. 2 Auburn to win the BCS national title for his Florida State Seminoles.

After the game, Winston was ecstatic. “We champions… Through everything that we went through, through all the haters, we came out victorious. And God did this,” he said. Winston was the toast of Tallahassee (and beyond), earning plaudits on Twitter from the likes of LeBron James—who called him “special”—and rapper Lil Wayne.

For Erica Kinsman, however, the praise being heaped on “Famous Jameis” was another in a long line of indignities suffered by the 20-year-old.

Just over one year earlier, on December 7, 2012, Kinsman, a bookish pre-med freshman at Florida State, accused Winston of a vicious sexual assault—but her cries for help fell on largely deaf ears. In The Hunting Ground, a comprehensive and compelling documentary examining the nationwide campus sexual assault epidemic, Kinsman speaks publicly for the first time about her alleged rape at the hands of Winston. The film is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (The Invisible War), and made its premiere on Friday at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It will air on CNN later this year, and will be released theatrically by Radius.
(more at link)