Award-winning Documentary The Hunting Ground Comes to Austin
Survive2Thrive Foundation brings producer Amy Ziering to Austin for two screenings to address important issue of campus sexual assault.
June 24 and 25, award-winning filmmaker Amy Ziering will come to Austin for the screening of her documentary The Hunting Ground, hosted by the Survive2Thrive Foundation and sponsored by Alamo Drafthouse.
Film producer Ziering is no stranger to tackling controversial topics. In 2014, she won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism, and she has been nominated for an Academy Award. Though Ziering’s new documentary has faced controversy since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, it was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination and prompted heated debates, campus protests and a probe launched by the Department of Education on multiple universities throughout the United States.
Courtney Santana, founder of the Survive2Thrive Foundation, who, along with her children, is a domestic-violence survivor, says sometimes, controversy is good because it starts a conversation.
“This film has shed light into the dark corners of campus sexual assault. If people are outraged, they should be, and their anger should motivate them to push for protection and help for victims,” she says. “The reason Survive2Thrive is hosting this event is that we want more survivors to come forward and share their stories, changing that pain into power and helping others.”
This is a chance, Santana says, for college students, future college students and Central Texans to learn more about the harm sexual abuse and domestic violence can cause beyond just what an individual victim faces.
“[It] separates families and has a lasting negative effect on more than just the one intended victim,” she says.
The Hunting Ground received the Producers Guild of America’s 2016 Stanley Kramer Award and is nominated for the PGA’s top documentary award. Since its release by Radius-TWC this February, The Hunting Ground has also been applauded for its original song, “Til It Happens to You,” written by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren.
There will be a VIP reception and meet-and-greet with Ziering in Austin June 24, with the screening and a panel discussion to follow.
June 24
4 to 5:30 p.m.
The Austonian, 55th floor
VIP reception and meet-and-greet with producer Amy Ziering
June 24
7 to 8:45 p.m.
Screening of The Hunting Ground, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
9 to 10 p.m.
Panel discussion with Deborah Hamilton-Lynne, Amy Ziering, Noël Busch-Armendariz, Alexis Jones, Dominique Vining and Rick Gipprich.
For more information, visit huntinggroundaustin.com and facebook.com/events/1081559051890289.
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