Audrie & Daisy

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Movie
Original title Audrie & Daisy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Bonni Cohen
Jon Shenk
script Michael Goodier
production Richard Berge
Bonni Cohen
Sara Dosa
music Tyler Strickland
camera Jon Shenk
cut Don Bernier
occupation
  • Daisy Coleman
  • Audrie Pott
  • Jim case
  • Delaney Henderson
  • Paige Parkhurst
  • Darren White
    as the Nodaway County Sheriff

Audrie & Daisy is a 2016 American biographical documentary directed by Bonni Cohen and John Shenk about two young women who are raped . The film is presented with the words: "A deeply moving documentary about two teenage girls who were raped by supposed friends, humiliated online and bullied by their communities."

content

When the 15-year-old Audrie Pott from Saratoga High School in Saratoga ( California ) on a high school party drinks too much and passes out, the three classmates to take this opportunity to take the girl into a separate room and her body with obscene scribbles to smear, whereby they do not shy away from touching even the most intimate areas of the 15-year-olds, which ultimately leads to the fact that they rape the helpless girl and document it with their smartphones. As if all of that is not enough, post these pictures on Facebook. Audrie sees no other way out than to commit suicide a few days later. Before that, she had left one of her rapists on Facebook with the following message: "You don't know what it's like to be a girl."

14-year-old Daisy Coleman from Maryville Missouri has had a similar story. After drinking too much, she is the victim of rape at a friend of Daisy's older brother's friend, as is her 13-year-old friend Paige. The young, still unconscious girl was later put down in front of her family's house, even though the temperature was below zero. The culprit, a local football hero in Daisy's hometown, is not so easy to get at. Daisy and her family must defend themselves against perfidious allegations made against them both online and on the street. It goes so far that the minor is described as a liar and a slut who deserved it no other way. Daisy's classmates can even use a hashtag to show their solidarity with the perpetrator . Daisy's older brother finds that his classmates cut him off because they side with the star of the football team. A trial against the perpetrator is not even opened. To make matters worse, the family's house is also set on fire. Daisy, previously a cheerful blonde girl who loved cheerleading, is not just changing outwardly by getting pierced and tattooed. Several suicide attempts show how deep her suffering is. This is also proven by her saying: "The words of our enemies are not as terrible as the silence of our friends."

When Daisy finds support on the internet from a young woman who has gone through the same thing as she has, and thus further contacts with even more affected women, it is a start to be able to deal a little better with what has happened.

Production, publication

The film, produced by actua films for Netflix , was shot in Maryville and Albany, Missouri, as well as in Pismo Beach and Saratoga , California .

The film premiered on January 25, 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival in the USA. On April 28, 2016 it was screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival . In Canada it was presented on May 3, 2016 at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival. On May 4, 2016, it was screened at the Montclair Film Festival in the USA and at the Traverse City Film Festival on July 30, 2016. It was screened in Australia on August 5, 2016 at the Melbourne International Film Festival. It was released in New York on September 23, 2016. It was also published in Russia. It has been distributed on the Internet via Netflix since September 23, 2016, for example in the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA and Germany.

background

In the film, victims who have survived express themselves, their relatives and joy, but also some of the perpetrators. These tormentors from Audrie & Daisy can be perceived as drawn comic characters who speak with distorted voices. Their body language reveals that they feel extremely uncomfortable in this situation (nervous shifting back and forth on the chair, often looking down). Court documents and results of police investigations are also the subject of the film. Cohen and Shenk saw their film as a modern twist on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter . Tori Amos, who wrote and recorded the title song Flicker , saw an obligation to get involved in this project, as she was a victim of rape herself at the age of 21.

Teresa Sickert of Spiegel Online wrote that something similar to Audrie Pott also happens to other young women, she thus “exemplifies a number of teenage women who [were] victims of sexual violence and who were then embarrassed on the Internet”. She also found that "the one and a half hour long documentation [was] not for the faint of heart." Even if in no way unreasonable pictures were shown, the detailed narratives of the abused girls would sometimes be difficult to bear. The fact that the young perpetrators initially considered their assault "a stupid, if tasteless joke", reveals "how deeply ingrained the contempt of women is in American society". Sickert believes that perhaps the most important sentence in the entire documentation is the statement: “You don't know what it is like to be a girl.” This reflects “the difficult conditions under which women have to grow up in the supposedly modern western world: be beautiful , be nice, just don't derail, otherwise your reputation will be ruined. "

criticism

Kathrin Hollmer's summary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk don't need brutal images. Victims, their parents, siblings and friends, even perpetrators, share their view of what happened. This does not reduce their impact. The descriptions are explicit and unadorned. In between there are photos of children cut, and girls giggling reminds of how carefree a 14-year-old should be. ”It goes on to say:“ Audrie & Daisy is a sensitive documentary that addresses the shame of the victims, but does not exploit it. At the same time, it sheds light on the pressure that social media brings in schools. "

In her review for Die Presse, Heide Rampetzreiter speaks of a “disturbing documentary” […] that tells “calmly” and whose “focus” is always “on the victims”, who are given “plenty of space” in the film. It continues: “In interviews with the investigators, the documentary exposes the often-practiced 'victim blaming'. The sheriff in the Daisy case, Darren White, is bragging about the fact that no one in town is superior to him. Then he pity the boys, the perpetrators. 'Rape' is a popular term right now, he says. [...] 'Audrie & Daisy' is more of a portrait of the girls whom the filmmakers approach sensitively and respectfully. "[...] When two of the perpetrators are interviewed as part of their sentence and asked what they have learned, the answer is" sobering “: Girls gossip a lot.

Teresa Sickert of Spiegel Online is of the opinion that 'Audrie & Daisy' "shows in a brutal way how tight the social corset is for young women". “How threatened they are with violence: sexual, psychological, offline and online. It is a terrible reality that rape does and has always happened. The fact that these cruel scenes find their way to the public much more easily in the age of smartphones makes processing even more difficult for the victims. Sometimes impossible, as apparently for Audrie Pott. ”The documentary makes“ the horror of the American province tangible ”.

Awards (selection)

nominated:

  • 2016: for the Critics' Choice Documentary Award in the category "Best Song in a Documentary" - Tori Amos with the song Flicker as well as in the categories "Best Documentary in Streaming" and "Best Political Documentary"
  • 2016: Hollywood Music In Meda Award (HMMA), Tori Amos in the category "Best original song in a documentary"
  • 2016: Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival , Documentation category, nominated: Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen
  • 2016: at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards for the Adrienne Shelly Award and in the category “Best Documentation by or about women” for the WFCC Award
  • 2017: for the Annie Award in the category "Best Animated Special Production"

won:

  • 2017: Winner of the Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US: Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman received the Cinema Eye Honors Award

additional

Coleman founded the organization SafeBAE (Safe Before Anyone Else) in 2017 to prevent sexual assault.

Daisy Coleman never got over the real life experience. She also committed suicide on August 4, 2020. Daisy Coleman was only 23 years old.

The premiere of a Netflix documentary series about Daisy Coleman's life is planned for September 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nosheen Iqbal: Audrie and Daisy: an unflinching account of high-school sexual assault
    In: The Guardian, September 19, 2016 (English). Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Teresa Sickert : Netflix documentary "Audrie & Daisy". First raped, then bullied
    In: Spiegel Online, September 23, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kathrin Hollmer: “Audrie & Daisy” on Netflix - this film doesn't need brutal images.
    In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 27, 2016. Retrieved on May 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ Heide Rampetzreiter: "Audrie & Daisy": Raped and humiliated - touching and never disrespectful.
    In: Die Presse, September 27, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ Celebrating a Decade at cinemaeyerhonors.com (English)
  6. ↑ Netflix star Daisy Coleman died at the age of just 23. August 7, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Netflix star Daisy Coleman is dead: She was only 23 years old. August 6, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .