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April 30, 2016 at 12:45 PM PT
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Audrie & Daisy

Directed by Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk  |  USA  |  96 min

Audrie & Daisy is an urgent real-life drama that examines the ripple effects on families, friends, schools and communities when two underage young women find that sexual crimes against them have been caught on camera. From acclaimed filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk (The Island President, The Rape of Europa), AUDRIE & DAISY -- which made its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival -- takes a hard look at America's teenagers who are coming of age in this new world of social media bullying, spun wildly out of control.
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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).

Biographies

Director Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk

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).