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Though it is only a piece of an intricate mosaic of first-person testimony, commentary and cogent analysis, "The Hunting Ground" (to be aired on CNN and released in theaters by Radius) is the first time Winston's accuser, Erica Kinsman, has gone public to tell her disturbing story, and to tell it in the context of a wider crisis.
Ziering, who did many of the interviews, was especially moved by talking to Tom Seeberg, whose daughter, Lizzy, committed suicide in the aftermath of her allegation of a sexual attack against Notre Dame football player Prince Shembo, who was never charged with a crime. "I began to cry, I had to pull myself together," she remembers, tearing up again at the memory. "Another one who broke my heart was a girl from Berkeley who hadn't told her parents yet. I was so upset, she gave me her teddy bear."
Kinsman's story of her experience with Winston is of a piece with the others, and her detailing of the specifics of the alleged event is chilling. (Winston has claimed the sex was consensual. No criminal charges were filed against him, and the school took no disciplinary action.)
The film notes that the police in Tallahassee, where Florida State is located, did not investigate Kinsman's report for 10 months, which, the filmmakers say, is an example of the way the power of college sports to earn money and build fanatical loyalty works against women who report being raped by athletes.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82617929/
Apparently the movie is a "tearjerker" and got rave reviews.
The documentary will be played a month before the draft.
Updated with info from the film.
She claims in the film that, after having some drinks, a man was creepily following her around the bar—but she was saved whenanother man put his arm around her and told the guy she was his girlfriend, and to piss off. Kinsman says the man then bought her a shot, and after she took it, she started to become very woozy. She faintly remembers being taken in a cab to an apartment, and the next thing she knew, the man was on top of her, engaging in vaginal intercourse with her. She says she begged and pleaded for him to stop, and then saw the man’s roommate enter the bedroom and tell his friend, “Stop… What are you doing?”
Kinsman says that the man ignored the roommate’s pleas, and took her to the bathroom, which could be locked from the inside. There, he pinned her head against the tiled floor with his hand, and continued to rape her. When he finished, the man allegedly said, “You can leave now.”
Lightheaded and with no idea where she was, Kinsman says she let the man drop her off on his scooter at a recognizable intersection—because she didn’t want him to know where she lived. Kinsman reported the rape, and was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare where a rape kit was performed. Semen was found on the woman’s body.
The following month, with her case still open, Kinsman was back for the first day of second semester class at Florida State. The professor was announcing roll call, and when the very last name was announced, she recognized him as the man that allegedly raped her: Jameis Winston.
“All these people were praising [Winston]… and calling me a slut, a whore,” Kinsman says in the film.
But on December 5, 2013, State Attorney Willie Meggs announced that the case was over, and no charged would be filed against Winston. In dikk’s film, Meggs is interviewed on camera and claims that while he did not have sufficient evidence to convict Winston,“I think things that happened that night were not good.”
And on December 21, 2014, in the wake of his National Championship and Heisman Trophy wins, and with a huge Rose Bowl game less than two weeks away, Winston was cleared of violating FSU’s student conduct code in connection to the sexual assault allegation.
“I kind of just want to know… why me?” asks a teary-eyed Kinsman in the film. “It doesn’t really make sense.”
Despite this alleged miscarriage of justice, dikk’s film earned a standing ovation following its Sundance premier
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-sundance-documentary-the-hunting-ground.html
Ziering, who did many of the interviews, was especially moved by talking to Tom Seeberg, whose daughter, Lizzy, committed suicide in the aftermath of her allegation of a sexual attack against Notre Dame football player Prince Shembo, who was never charged with a crime. "I began to cry, I had to pull myself together," she remembers, tearing up again at the memory. "Another one who broke my heart was a girl from Berkeley who hadn't told her parents yet. I was so upset, she gave me her teddy bear."
Kinsman's story of her experience with Winston is of a piece with the others, and her detailing of the specifics of the alleged event is chilling. (Winston has claimed the sex was consensual. No criminal charges were filed against him, and the school took no disciplinary action.)
The film notes that the police in Tallahassee, where Florida State is located, did not investigate Kinsman's report for 10 months, which, the filmmakers say, is an example of the way the power of college sports to earn money and build fanatical loyalty works against women who report being raped by athletes.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82617929/
Apparently the movie is a "tearjerker" and got rave reviews.
The documentary will be played a month before the draft.
Updated with info from the film.
She claims in the film that, after having some drinks, a man was creepily following her around the bar—but she was saved whenanother man put his arm around her and told the guy she was his girlfriend, and to piss off. Kinsman says the man then bought her a shot, and after she took it, she started to become very woozy. She faintly remembers being taken in a cab to an apartment, and the next thing she knew, the man was on top of her, engaging in vaginal intercourse with her. She says she begged and pleaded for him to stop, and then saw the man’s roommate enter the bedroom and tell his friend, “Stop… What are you doing?”
Kinsman says that the man ignored the roommate’s pleas, and took her to the bathroom, which could be locked from the inside. There, he pinned her head against the tiled floor with his hand, and continued to rape her. When he finished, the man allegedly said, “You can leave now.”
Lightheaded and with no idea where she was, Kinsman says she let the man drop her off on his scooter at a recognizable intersection—because she didn’t want him to know where she lived. Kinsman reported the rape, and was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare where a rape kit was performed. Semen was found on the woman’s body.
The following month, with her case still open, Kinsman was back for the first day of second semester class at Florida State. The professor was announcing roll call, and when the very last name was announced, she recognized him as the man that allegedly raped her: Jameis Winston.
“All these people were praising [Winston]… and calling me a slut, a whore,” Kinsman says in the film.
But on December 5, 2013, State Attorney Willie Meggs announced that the case was over, and no charged would be filed against Winston. In dikk’s film, Meggs is interviewed on camera and claims that while he did not have sufficient evidence to convict Winston,“I think things that happened that night were not good.”
And on December 21, 2014, in the wake of his National Championship and Heisman Trophy wins, and with a huge Rose Bowl game less than two weeks away, Winston was cleared of violating FSU’s student conduct code in connection to the sexual assault allegation.
“I kind of just want to know… why me?” asks a teary-eyed Kinsman in the film. “It doesn’t really make sense.”
Despite this alleged miscarriage of justice, dikk’s film earned a standing ovation following its Sundance premier
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-sundance-documentary-the-hunting-ground.html
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Real talk, why don't she just hire Gloria Allred already??!! Allred would probably do it for free, just for publicity.
