The woman who accused Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston of sexually assaulting her has gone public with the release of a new documentary.
The movie, titled The Hunting Ground, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday. The Los Angeles Times describes the film as a "devastating indictment of the plague of rapes on campuses."
The movie features numerous first-person testimonies of people claiming to be victims of sexual assault on college campuses. Among those is Erica Kinsman, who claims Winston raped her in 2012.
10 News had previously not identified Kinsman, following our Crime Guidelines. However, she has now gone public and agreed to be identified.
Earlier this month, Kinsman filed a federal civil lawsuit against FSU, arguing that she became subject to a sexually hostile environment and that "FSU's responses to the harassment were clearly unreasonable."
Winston was never charged with the assault, and in December he was also cleared of violating the school's code of conduct.
Documentary paints 'brutal' picture of campus rape culture
The campus rape epidemic is given a face -- dozens of them in fact -- in The Hunting Ground, director Kirby Dick's sobering investigation into the systematic silencing of sexual assault victims which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.
Through an expert juxtaposition of personal accounts and damning statistics, the film paints a brutal picture of university administrators more concerned with keeping campus crime statistics low than helping the students who have come forward to report rape.
Dick and producer Amy Ziering explored sexual assault in the U.S. military in 2012'sThe Invisible War, and were inspired to tackle the issue on college campuses after hearing from women at their university screenings.
The Hunting Ground, in theaters on March 20 and on CNN later this year, indicts a wide range of institutions for their lax punishments of reported rapists including Notre Dame, the University of Virginia, Swarthmore College, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and others.
In a particularly revealing sequence, the paltry repercussions are listed by institution, including $25 fines and suspension over the summer.
Beyond the dizzying statistics and myriad talking heads, ranging from former campus police guards to clinical psychologists, the heart of the movie is rooted in the personal stories, whether it's a father describing the rape of his daughter who committed suicide, or the assault victims themselves, some of whom are men.
Audiences see Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, both of whom were assaulted at the University of North Carolina, and subsequently ignored and belittled by their administrators, rally support around the country for their End Rape on Campus movement and filing a Title IX complaint against UNC.
The filmmaking may not be noteworthy, but it is the stories that are both illuminating and essential and will likely not leave a dry eye in the audience.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
