Reid was the one who came forward and told the world . Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick are locked in a battle of wills during a music session with a group of editors in early February. Mostly known for her work in documentary films, she is a regular collaborator of director Kirby Dick; they co-directed 2002's Derrida and 2020's On the Record, with Ziering also producing several of Dick's films. With this film, I went through such an emotional roller coaster. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. In many ways, weve grown accustomed to the premise underpinning the HBOMax series Allen v. Farrow, directed by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick. Other films she produced include "Outrage" (2009), nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism; and Kristen Johnson's Oscar-shortlisted "Cameraperson" (2016) and Josh Fox's "Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock" (2017) as an executive producer.Throughout Ziering's filmography, notable accolades she has amassed include: an Oscar nomination, two Emmy awards, a Peabody, an Independent Spirit Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a Gracie Award, the Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage and Filmmaking, an Upton Sinclair Award, the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize, and the George Polk Award. In mid-January, Dixon fired Marchant prior to Sundance. With these kinds of crimes, predators not only groom their prey, but also all the people around them. During the making of Invisible War, one woman revealed that in the two decades since she was raped, Ziering was the first person who believed her; another drove three hours to an Ohio screening of the movie so she could tell Ziering that watching it finally allowed her to stop blaming herself. All Rights Reserved. It was like the air. So, you know, white women pretty much are the worst. Ahead of its debut, the series was criticized for being one sided and dismissingthe perspectives of Allen's wife and Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn, and Mia Farrow's adopted son Moses Farrow who has accused Mia of abuse. We found out that everything this person had reported was true and reflective real systemic flaws that we were totally unaware of and that the public is totally unaware of and most of the medical community is unaware of, Ziering explains. Now I feel like Im being assaulted again, because Ive been set up, Jones says. I don't have a referential trauma to reflect back on. I was in the dark, and nobody was telling me anything., When Jones asked what happened to Marchant, she says that Amy Herdy told her that Marchant was toxic and wouldnt be working with the survivors. Meek: From your documentary, I got the concerning feeling that maybe not as much has changed as we think. Lifes uncomfortable. But we could not get funding for a film about sexual assault in the military, a film which went on to get an Oscar nomination. But this arrangement, according to sources with knowledge of the decision-making, was meant to support the women in the film, not to promote the film itself. As she was making up her mind, he told Times Up that he was her new rep, which she says she hadnt authorized. And obviously Trump was so devastating53% of white women voted for Trump. The series . The story of what happened during the making and release of On the Record is a cautionary tale. The impact of their work has been profuse. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 99% based on 71 reviews. Following her award-winning documentary The Hunting Ground on campus sexual assault, filmmaker Amy Ziering is back with a takedown of the negligence in the medical . Amy Ziering is a two-time Emmy award-winning and Academy award-nominated investigative filmmaker behind some of the most groundbreaking documentaries today with her creative partner Kirby Dick. And its the way people are about rape.. Ian Andrew Ziering ( / an zr /; born March 30, 1964) is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Sanders on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, which he played from 1990 to 2000. In the #MeToo era, Hollywood has been investing in documentaries about sexual abuse survivors. So its interesting and important for me to know about his history as I read his work. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. In the film, Jones story doesnt stand on its own. Ziering, Dick and Herdy have been making news recently with the release of their HBO docuseries "Allen v. Farrow," about alleged childhood sexual abuse of Dylan Farrow by her father, Woody Allen.. But again, as a weak defense, I will say, quoting bell hooks that the patriarchy knows no gender. EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, along with their production company, Jane Doe Films (fka Chain Camera Pictures), have signed with WME. I remember interviewing a prosecutor once who told me she was getting increasingly frustrated because juries in rape cases were never ruling in her clients favor. Is Ian Ziering still married? View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, 2013 New Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Members. Nobody wanted to talk about it. "The Bleeding Edge" (2018) unearthed the fast-growing medical device industry's corruption and malfeasance; compelling industry giant Bayer to remove a harmful device from the market and catalyzing a worldwide debate about regulation and patient safety. After she finished filming, Jones thanked the filmmakers and gave the appearance of seeming OK. On Dec. 30, 2019, Jones flew to Los Angeles from her home in Arizona, to talk to the directors of the documentary On the Record about the night in 1990 when she says music mogul Russell Simmons raped her. In 2012, she premiered The Invisible War at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. But that isnt quite the bar anymore for stories of assault and harassment post #MeToo. [21]The Hunting Ground was also one of the five movies nominated in the Documentary category of the 2016 MTV Movie Awards. She is the daughter of Sigi Ziering, a Holocaust survivor, and Marilyn Ziering. The documentary series Allen v. Farrow is a departure for the co-directing team of Ziering and Kirby Dick. But Variety has learned some of the experts featured in the film had no idea they were going to be part of a Simmons documentary. So, theres a lot of work still to be done, but thank god the culture is shifting. And if your doctor says youll need a medical device, she suggests asking if you can see the studies on the device, how long they have been in use and whether they have had any adverse consequences for other people who have used them. She wishes she could be removed from On the Record., It took so long to tell my story, Jones says. But after Winfrey pulled out, the dynamics changed between them. Ian Ziering in "Swamp Thing" CW. When Mia Farrow showed up for her first on-camera interview with Allen v. Farrow co-director Amy Ziering, the filmmaker saw warning . According to the film, the $400 billion medical device industry which incorporates everything from vaginal mesh to hip implants to robotic surgeons is far less regulated than pharmaceuticals but doesnt receive nearly as much media attention. Publicity Listings When she reads stories that celebrate them as advocates for survivors, she thinks back to their indifference to her. Our biggest talking point with those two earlier films: was believe women and we had to repeat it over and over againand it was received as a quite radical and novel, if not heretical concept. On Jan. 10, the same day as the interview with CBS, Winfrey announced she was dropping out of the project. She co-directed the film with Kirby Dick. After that, 19 Harvard professors signed an open letter, criticizing The Hunting Ground., And then, in November 2015, New York magazine ran a story with the headline, The Hunting Ground Uses a Striking Statistic About Campus Rape Thats Almost Certainly False. This article called out the filmmakers for using potentially misleading data to suggest serial offenders are responsible for most sexual assault cases on college campuses. Ziering got agitated that Dixon hadnt used the encrypted messaging app Signal, because Ziering was worried that if the email leaked it made it look like the subject was influencing the film, according to a text message written by Dixon at the time. Ziering: Chelsea Handler tweeted something that really aptly summed it up: Woody Allen denying any sexual relationship with his daughterwith the defense beingthat hes in a sexual relationship with his other daughter.. I was narrowed down to a victim of Russell Simmons and an accuser. The actor competed back in season 4 of the hit dance competition series. For many years, we have worked extremely hard to make films that lift up the voices of sexual assault survivors in the hopes this would help them heal, raise broader social awareness around these issues and inspire cultural change, the statement reads. Meek: In the series, one of the things that I kept thinking about is how the other parent is sort of gaslighted. Or do they want to profit off our pain?, By the time On the Record finally aired on TV in May, Jones had severed ties with the filmmakers. (In a statement at the time, Dick stood by the films reporting: Every statistic in our film is accurate, including the statistics on repeat offenders, and nothing in this article proves otherwise, he said. Several of the survivors in the film were invited to accompany the directors to Sundance. That just didnt not happen in my universe prior to #MeToo. Zierings films have the odd distinction of straddling both sides of the #MeToo movement, beginning not long after Tarana Burke coined the hashtag in 2006 and stretching through its proliferation in 2017. In the midst of this negativity and finger pointing, Jones felt like it was part of her responsibility to help save the film. [7] It explores Derrida's life and work while questioning the limitations of biography. And, of course, on top of that, the patriarchal nuclear family is ground zero in our Western Christian patriarchal white supremacist society. [44], Ziering has three daughters and resides in Brentwood.[45]. Ian Ziering has reacted to Jessica Alba's claims that she was banned from making eye contact with the Beverly Hills, 90210 cast. Ian Ziering's wife Erin filed for divorce in November, days after the BH90210 actor announced their split following nine years of marriage By Jen Juneau Published on January 8, 2020 01:00 PM. While the filmmakers were doing press for that series, Variety asked them about Jones regrets about working with them. So I just buried it.. I felt fooled. Ziering best known for his role as sporty rich kid Steve Sanders on the original Beverly Hills, 90210 is back in the zeitgest, this time, as bar owner Fin (ha) who sets out to save his . (Through a representative, Winfrey declined to comment.). She had no idea of my identity, Jones says. Heres What Parents Can Do to Help, Sundance 2023: Judy Blume Forever and the Enduring Power of Books, Taliban Bans the Selling of Contraceptives in Afghanistan, Midterm elections deliver major victories for abortion rights, New Survey: Concern Over Abortion and Equal Rights Top Inflationby 22 Points asMain Drivers of Young Womens Vote in Battleground States. Eli Glasner is the senior entertainment reporter and screentimecolumnist for CBC News. It's the third rail no one wants to look at.". Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Following her award-winning documentary The Hunting Ground on campus sexual assault, filmmaker Amy Ziering is back with a takedown of the negligence in the medical device industry in The Bleeding Edge. She offeredMia Farrow the silk blouse she was wearing, andborrowed a t-shirt from the crew for herself. He didnt have my permission. The filmmakers started a whisper campaign that Marchant had been secretly working with Winfrey to derail the movie, according to multiple sources. [8] Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering examine the sexual assault allegations against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. If there are consequences for these kinds of actions, a lot less people will get hurt.. Either way, its still a forum for me to tell my story. While her moves and teaching skills have earned her a spot in the final two on four separate occasions, there is one season that just didn't work out to well. No one wants to see films about women being raped. Farrow's co-director convinced Mia and Dylan to go on camera. Dont do that, Ziering says. How Allen v. Farrow's co-director convinced Mia and Dylan to go on camera. Dixon, who is also represented by Mazie, didnt comment on the record for this story. Throughout the summer of 2019, Marchant kept asking the filmmakers about their press strategy for the film, which no one had seen. Another woman, who also didnt know what the movie was going to be about, was still pleased to be in it, and to support the women who spoke out. But when she saw On the Record for the first time at Sundance, it felt jarring to her how little of her story they used. It became about the directors and what they wanted to portray, as opposed to what was best for the survivors.. In episodes three and four of the series, we examine the family courts, and expose how its much more common for children to be sent back to their offending parent than not. HBO Documentary Films has slated the four-part series Allen v. Farrow from award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (On the Record, The Hunting Ground) and Amy Herdy. Beyond Allen v. Farrow and On the Record, Ziering and Dick have made a career out of interviewing sexual abuse survivors in documentary form, specializing in this genre. Graduated from Amherst College with a degree in English in 1984. It was so, so devastating. "He's a great screenwriter,so he rewrote the narrative really quicklyand everybody just lapped it up.". Amy Ziering: I wasn't surprised but it was also unfair to make that assessment. Has that also transformed the reception to your work? [8] Several government officials have commented on the film's influence on policy, including Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has said that the film convinced him to implement a wave of reforms designed to reduce the prevalence of military sexual assault. When Amy Ziering was 15, she returned home from school to find a document that would unwittingly change her life. So on that day of the first shoot, when Ziering saw Mia Farrow stepping into her first in-depth interview wearing a black sweatshirt, she interpreted it as a signal of Mia's reluctance but she knew she had to do something. Amy Ziering is a two-time Emmy award-winning and Academy award-nominated investigative filmmaker behind some of the most groundbreaking documentaries today with her creative partner Kirby Dick. The ripple effects of the attack, which Dixon talks about movingly in the film, changed her life and derailed her career, forcing her out of a job at which she excelled. "He had the microphone and the media amplified it, so he had a megaphone," she toldDay 6. She stayed home, feeling dismissed, Jones says. And thats 2010. "This is an actress. How The Hunting Ground Blurs the Truth,. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. For me, its not all that complicated. People often relate Matt to the Beverly Hills, 90210 star Ian because of the same surname. While the series points out how Allen molded the media message framing Mia Farrow as a bad mother there are signs the industry is changing. In fact, if a mother asserts that the father is assaulting their child, it is more likely for the judge to give custody of the molested child back to the father. 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