Monday, November 2, 2015

The Hunting Ground (2015)

Director:    Kirby Dick
Run Time: 90 min

“'The Hunting Ground,' Kirby Dick’s documentary about sexual assault on university campuses, is important but devastating viewing. . . . It’s a film likely to make you furious, and rightly so, just as it’s breaking your heart. (Listen to the father of a young woman who killed herself after her report of an assault by a football player was seemingly ignored by campus investigators. If you can.) But, within the ire and the pain, there’s hope. Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, both victims of sexual assault during their college years, are featured in the film; these two bright, driven young women are now activists, traveling the country to speak out, to change a culture, to try to make the kind of stories we hear in 'The Hunting Ground' a thing of the past. . . ."

—Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times (Link to Full Review)