Film Screening and Discussion: The Hunting Ground
Tue, 18 Oct
|Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
October 18, 2016 @ 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Time & Location
18 Oct 2016, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
About the Event
Date Tue 18 Oct 2016 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Location
CPD 3.04, Centennial Campus, HKU
Description of the documentary: The statistics are staggering. One in five women in college are sexually assaulted, yet only a fraction of these crimes are reported, and even fewer result in punishment for the perpetrators. From the intrepid team behind The Invisible War comes The Hunting Ground, a piercing, monumental exposé of rape culture on campuses, poised to light a fire under a national debate.
In a tour de force of verité footage, expert insights, and first-person testimonies, the film follows undergraduate rape survivors pursuing both their education and justice, despite ongoing harassment and the devastating toll on them and their families.
Scrutinizing the gamut of elite Ivies, state universities, and small colleges, filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering reveal an endemic system of institutional cover-ups, rationalizations, victim-blaming, and denial that creates perfect storm conditions for predators to prey…