The woman who’s become a viral sensation for her powerful testimony at the sentencing of convicted rapist and former Stanford student Brock Turner has an Oscar nominee to thank for sharing her powerful statement to the world.
“This is another watershed moment, just like the Gaga moment at the Oscars,” Amy Ziering, producer of the harrowing 2015 campus rape documentary “The Hunting Ground,” told TheWrap. “We’re seeing another survivor empowerment anthem get that global attention.”
Ziering herself had a hand in spreading the unnamed survivor’s account. Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, who was seated in the courtroom where the survivor read her 12-page survivor impact statement aloud, immediately texted the filmmaker.