Audrie & Daisy
Description
Sexual assault on college campuses has become a hot-button issue across the country, but the students at even greater risk are a few years behind those coeds, walking the halls of our local high schools. Bringing their experience as both documentarians and parents of teenagers, San Francisco filmmakers Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen (The Island President) explore two harrowing cases that demonstrate the potential for tragic repercussions when teens, sex, alcohol and social media mix—and how rarely perpetrators are punished for these kinds of crimes. By compellingly capturing both sides of the story, Audrie & Daisy could well provoke a national dialogue along the lines of The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War (SFIFF 2012).
Bonni Cohen is the co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund and of the San Francisco-based documentary production company Actual Films. She has produced and directed numerous award-winning films, including The Island President (2011), The Rape of Europa (SFIFF 2007) and Wonders Are Many (SFIFF 2007). She executive produced Art and Craft (SFIFF 2013) and 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets (SFIFF 2015), which had its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and aired last fall on HBO.
Jon Shenk is an award-winning director and cinematographer based in San Francisco. He directed and photographed The Island President (2011), which won Best Documentary at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival. He was the director of photography for the Academy Award-winning short documentary Smile Pinki (2009) and won an Emmy Award for Blame Somebody Else (2007). Shenk directed and photographed Lost Boys of Sudan (SFIFF 2003), a 2004 Independent Spirit Award winner, and co-directed and photographed Democracy Afghan Style (2004). Early in his career, he directed and photographed The Beginning (1999), a chronicle of George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode 1 (1999).
Film Details
Language English
Year 2016
Runtime 96
Country USA
Director Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Producer Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Sara Dosa
Editor Don Bernier
Cinematographer Jon Shenk
Music Tyler Strickland