Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

Casualties of war rage beyond the battlefield. As ranks of women in the American military swell, so do incidents of rape. An estimated 30 percent of servicewomen and at least 1 percent of servicemen are sexually assaulted during their enlistment. And not by the enemy, but at the hands of fellow soldiers. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, The Invisible War exposes a rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.

We meet characters who embraced their service with pride and professionalism, only to have their idealism crushed. Their chilling stories of violent sexual assault become even more rattling as they seek justice in a Kafkaesque military legal system. As a courageous few defy victimhood, they face their most challenging fight yet: penetrating a closed circuit where officers collude, cases are routinely swept under the rug, and few perpetrators are tried or convicted

Award Winner
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary Presented by Acura
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Kirby Dick is an Emmy- and Academy Award–nominated documentary director and one of the most prolific and eclectic filmmakers working in the field today. Five of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997), which won a Special Jury Prize; Chain Camera (2001); Derrida (2002); Twist of Faith (2005), which was nominated for an Academy Award; and This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006). His films have also screened at festivals around the world.

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