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- Nominated for the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and the F:ACT Award at CPH: Dox, her recent film, Victim/Suspect follows Investigative journalist Rae de Leon as she travels nationwide to uncover and examine a shocking pattern: Young women tell the police they've been sexually assaulted, but instead of finding justice, they're charged with the crime of making a false report, arrested, and even imprisoned by the system they believed would protect them.
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Nancy Schwartzman is director and producer of Victim/Suspect. She is a Peabody-nominated documentary filmmaker, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and the Directors Guild of America.
Featuring firsthand accounts from numerous young women as well as interviews with police, investigators, and legal experts, Victim/Suspect raises crucial questions about how the criminal justice system views and treats sexual assault victims. Directed and produced by Nancy Schwartzman and Executive Produced by Motto Pictures and the Center for ...
May 23, 2023 · Nancy Schwartzman’s harrowing documentary “Victim/Suspect” wades into tricky waters to ultimately make a vital point. By focusing on young victims who were then arrested for making false accusations, the film is an urgent reminder of the nuance with which each sexual assault case must be handled, starting with the authorities.
Oct 14, 2023 · Originally debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, the Nancy Schwartzman-directed film follows investigative journalist Rachel de Leon as she uncovers several legal cases in which sexual assault victims were charged with filing a false police report, despite the veracity of their stories.
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Helmed by Red Red Roll director Nancy Schwartzman, Victim/Suspect is a feature-length documentary centering on a journalist’s investigations into numerous cases of young women who reported their sexual assaults. But rather than the police investigating the cases thoroughly, they accused these women of lying and arrested them for filing false report...
The Netflix documentary focuses on the four-year investigation led by journalist Rachel “Rae” de Leon, who uncovered the sinister pattern of cases in 2018. A lot of Victim/Suspect was filmed in real time during de Leon’s first independent investigation for the Center for Investigative Reporting, a non-profit investigative journalism organization. D...
Though it’s a disturbing watch, Victim/Suspect plays an important part in highlighting the pitfalls of the US justice system and law enforcement’s treatment of sexual assault, while also giving the survivors a platform to speak the truth. The Netflix documentary currently has a 72% Rotten Tomatoes score from the critics. As for the reviews, The Hol...
- Daisy Phillipson
- Senior TV & Movies Writer
A project three years in the making from director Nancy Schwartzman (Roll Red Roll), the film features not only victims’ stories, but interviews with police detectives, attorneys, and legal experts who deconstruct systemic problems in sexual assault handling. The most stunning (and infuriating) moments belong to interrogation footage that ...
Meet Nancy Schwartzman, the filmmaker of “Victim/Suspect,”which is playing in the Documentary Competition section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Present...
