“The Hunting Ground,” which screened at Sundance on Friday, debuted to an emotional standing ovation.ĭirector Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering, whose documentary about rape in the military sparked national awareness of the issue and action, have now turned their cameras on campus rape and the movement underway to fight it. Distributors were unwilling to fund or release the film, and few people were willing to talk on the record.A powerful new documentary by the filmmakers behind “The Invisible War” explores a national epidemic of rape on campus. Everyone was frightened about what would happen to their careers, and worried about whether they would be sued. “So, we began working on this project and immediately found ourselves grappling with the same forces that had kept this story silenced for so long. “Every time we screened that film in Hollywood, actors and executives would come up to us and say that they had had similar experiences right here,” Ziering continued in the statement. Along with The Hunting Ground, the duo also worked on The Invisible War, a documentary about rape in the military.

“The origins of this project actually goes back several years, arising out of the harrowing stories we heard while doing outreach on two of our previous films,” Ziering said in a statement. “Our film will also underscore the courage it takes to come forward and be a catalyst for change.” “What our film will capture, especially at this pivotal turning point in Hollywood history, is the underlying current of abuse and manipulation at the hands of power,” Dick said in a statement. It will analyze alleged predators in the industry-including Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 50 women thus far.

On Monday, the two revealed that they were gearing up for another documentary, this time about Hollywood sexual abuse and cover-ups. Though perhaps it’d be more fitting to say that the disgraced mogul is going under the microscope, thanks to an upcoming documentary by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering-the duo behind the Oscar-nominated doc The Hunting Ground, which examined rape culture on college campuses. Harvey Weinstein may not be ready for his close-up, but he’s getting one anyway.

The Hunting Ground by Kirby Dick