Roll Red Roll

Anincisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostileand systemic undercurrentsthat enable sexual violence, andspotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the Big Red high school football team. They took turns documenting the crime and sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The victim, Jane Doe, learned the details via social media at a time when teens didnt yet understand the lasting trail of their digital breadcrumbs. Crime blogger Alexandria Goddard, along with hacker collective Anonymous, exposed the photos, Tweets, and videos, making this the first rape case ever to go viral and catapulting Steubenville onto the national stage.Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman spent four years embedded in the town, documenting the case and its...