Roll Red Roll

At a pre-season football party in small-town Steubenville, Ohio, a heinous crime took place: the assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high school football team. What transpired would garner national attention and result in the sentencing of two key offenders. But it was the disturbing social media evidence uncovered online by crime blogger, Alex Goddard, that provoked the most powerful questions about the case, and about the collusion of teen bystanders, teachers, parents and coaches to protect the assailants and discredit the victim. As it painstakingly reconstructs the night of the crime and its aftermath, ROLL RED ROLL uncovers the engrained rape culture at the heart of the incident, acting as a cautionary tale about what can happen when teenage social media bullying runs rampant and adults look the other way. The film unflinchingly asks: “Why didn’t anyone stop it?”

Please join us for a post-screening panel discussion:

Moderators:

Jenn Abelson, Washington Post investigative reporter
Paloma Delgado, BCC Senior

Panelists:

Fabiana Diaz, sexual assault survivor turned activist
Neil Irvin, Men Can Stop Rape
Susan Prout, mother of sexual assault survivor, Chessy Prout and co-founder of I Have A Right To
Dr. David Reitman, sub-specialist on adolescent medicine, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Medstar-Georgetown and expert on topics relating to adolescents, young adults and the LGBTQ community
Twanna A. Hines, award­-winning sex and relationships educator and founder of the creative social enterprise Funky Brown Chick, Inc.

Special Student Pricing: $5
Standard ticket pricing for all other tickets.

This film is presented in partnership with Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers (MoCAT) as a part of their series “Coming of Age in Toxicity.” For more information on MoCAT, visit mocatpopup.org.