![]() ![]() Recognising the documentary's social currency in these times, Athlete A directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk don't just build a powerful narrative around the Larry Nassar scandal, but take into account the system, the gatekeepers, the power dynamics and all the factors that played a part in the decades-long cover-up. If fiction filmmakers craft a narrative into a convincing representation of reality, documentary filmmakers work the opposite way: they craft reality into a compelling narrative. #MeToo is after all an intersectional, intergenerational and international movement - and 2017 was a watershed year for many survivors of sexual violence. ![]() Now, they take aim at another institution which allowed sexual violence to reach epidemic proportions. In their 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground, Dick and Ziering brought to light the culture of sexual assault on American college campuses. ![]() We see this moment two-thirds into On The Record, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering's recent documentary on the sexual assault allegations against music mogul Russell Simmons. She breaks down in tears but for the first time, it feels like she has finally reclaimed her narrative - a narrative that, for two decades, was buried. Right on the front page is her story of surviving sexual assault - "Three Allege Music Mogul Raped Them" - and the black-and-white photo of the man responsible for it. In December 2017, a couple of months after the Weinstein scandal, Drew Dixon buys a copy of the New York Times at a Brooklyn coffee shop. ![]()
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