Jones was a last-minute addition to the film, which features accounts from several women who claim they had been sexually assaulted or attacked by Simmons. Albert L. Ortega/Getty Ian Ziering and Erin Ludwig Ziering. When Jones asked if she could go, someone from the film told her that shed have to pay her own way, at a cost of thousands of dollars a night. Publicly, Dixon has been effusive about working with the directors, telling IndieWire in November 2020 that they clearly understood survivor trauma. But privately, written communications from her reviewed by Variety indicate Dixon experienced a situation that was often stressful and difficult behind-the-scenes. Im going to say whatever I want.. I owe a lot of the intellectual basis for my work to Martin Heidegger who supported the Nazis. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Her latest project, "Not So Pretty" (2022), is a four-part investigation-driven exploration of the lurking dangers in the commodities we all use every day without question for makeup, skin-care, nails, and hair. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. You Should Know the Names of These Black Women Health Heroes & Celebrate Them All Year Long, This Breathing Technique Can Calm You Down in 5 Minutes or Less, 13 Obscure Sex Acts You Might Not Know About (But May Want to Try), What Happens to Your Body Each Day of Your Menstrual Cycle, Easy Sex Moves That Are Subtle But Mind-Blowing, Want to Level-Up Your Manifestation Skills? [12][13], In 2015, The Hunting Ground premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Meek: Does it feel overwhelming as someone whos been advocating for changes in these kinds of arenas to feel like theres so much to be done and not enough time to make films on all of these areas that need massive change? The groundwork has been laid that shifts credibility from perpetrators to women. Popular American actress, Brianne Howey, recently got married to Matt Ziering. That sent the filmmakers scrambling, as Herdy reached out to survivors who had previously told their stories in the press. So I would just be very careful when people all too often are quick to blame the non-offending parent, because its a much more complicated psychological landscape; and they often should be empathic towards the other parent as well because often the whole family has, in a way, been deceived and held hostage. Distributors were unwilling to fund or release the film, and few people were willing to talk on the record. Until now, several women associated with the movie have avoided speaking out against it, they say, because they dont want to diminish the survivors stories or somehow become a talking point for Simmons defense. After she finished filming, Jones thanked the filmmakers and gave the appearance of seeming OK. Her Oscar-nominated "The Invisible War" (2012) broke the story on the epidemic of rape in the US military and led to five congressional hearing and the passing of 35 reforms through congress. For me, its not all that complicated. And Herdy wondered if Jones could help her find more survivors for the film. "He had the microphone and the media amplified it, so he had a megaphone," she toldDay 6. The pair have previously explored sexual assaultinside the military and college campuses. . If I were to just track the differences in the response to our earlier films: Invisible War, and The Hunting Ground to that of Allen v. Farrow, I see a big shift in terms of the lift we had to make in forging our arguments in those films and engaging with press. I felt ashamed., She was upset, the person she talked to recalls, confirming Jones version of events. Yet, whats most disturbing about the details uncovered by the investigative work in Allen v. Farrow is just how much hid in plain sightfor nearly 30 years. Ok, so who now wants to tell me about it? And there was silence. Its not about just erasing that factits about learning from it. "It actually raises larger questions about how to treat incest in the culture. Asked whether the situation is improving, Ziering says, "I hope so. I mean, I just do what I do. ), While making The Hunting Ground, the filmmakers werent positioning themselves as impartial storytellers. From 2013 to 2018, he starred as Fin Shepard in the Sharknado film series. It follows a former music executive who grapples with whether to go public with her Let us travel back to season 4 with. The couple confirmed the news on July 25 and Brianne Howey shared a photo of herself and Ziering's wedding day on. And obviously Trump was so devastating53% of white women voted for Trump. She was the helper., Jones felt gaslighted, she says, because Mazie offered to represent her as part of the films publicity team. In the 90s, I believe that I did not have the sophistication or education to interpret what I was hearing about Mia Farrow appropriately. Following her award-winning documentary The Hunting Ground on campus sexual assault, filmmaker Amy Ziering is back with a takedown of the negligence in the medical device industry in The Bleeding Edge. Her parents, both active philanthropists, had politicized her early on: her mother brought her along to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern and later California gubernatorial nominee Tom Bradley; her father took in an Iranian refugee and assisted Russian immigrants during her childhood in Beverly Hills. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. Simmons has denied any rape or sexual abuse allegations. Thats ridiculous., The survivors initially decided to stick together. Being an advocate is instinctive for Ziering, who began reading seminal feminist theory during her sophomore year at Amherst College. Not to mention the immense legal hurdle, which is why it took us so long to figure out how to do an incest film. Throughout On the Record, in addition to stories of survivors, there are clips of activists, lawyers and writers such as Tarana Burke, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw and Kierna Mayo talking about the devastating effects of sexual abuse for survivors in the Black community. Dixon seems to have clashed mostly with Ziering as the film was being completed. As Jones discovered, when a rape survivor talks to a documentary filmmaker, she can lose ownership of her own narrative. Ian Ziering and his wife Erin Kristine Ludwig have called it quits. And it taught me that thats what you do with your life and how you live, Ziering remembers of her dad. Dick credits this to Ziering, who conducts nearly all of their interviews. Find another doctor.. And right now, how many films are there out there about women being assaultedI cant even honestly count them. How Allen v. Farrow's co-director convinced Mia and Dylan to go on camera. While the series points out how Allen molded the media message framing Mia Farrow as a bad mother there are signs the industry is changing. Meek: So are you feeling hopeful about what could the next 10 years possibly bring, like maybe this whole thing is really going to break open? Still, Zierings films have been as educational to her as they have been for her audience. Ian Ziering has been married two times in his life. Ziering and her crew, however, are not ones to steer away from difficult subjects. If all of us start asking more questions about how these devices were tested, then youll be a much healthier and safer person in the long run as a consumer of these products.. I mean, honestly. They knew nothing about the Black community, she says. If anything, though, its only cemented the importance of her work. And thats 2010. [40] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". And no one certainly wants to see films about women raped in the military. According to Jones, Ziering asked her to recount the story of the alleged rape repeatedly in the interview. In total, she speaks for about 40 seconds in the movie. "[35], Once the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations went public, funding appeared through Impact Partners, which also financed The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War. During the making of Invisible War, one woman revealed that in the two decades since she was raped, Ziering was the first person who believed her; another drove three hours to an Ohio screening of the movie so she could tell Ziering that watching it finally allowed her to stop blaming herself. Several of the survivors in the film were invited to accompany the directors to Sundance. They expressed surprise and said they would speak directly to Variety about it in a separate conversation. Graduated from Amherst College with a degree in English in 1984. And, of course, on top of that, the patriarchal nuclear family is ground zero in our Western Christian patriarchal white supremacist society. We need to all keep at itto ensure that these changes are lasting and meaningful and real. [38], Dick and Ziering's first documentary series, Allen v. Farrow is a four-part series that examines the sexual assault allegation made against Woody Allen by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, who was seven when the abuse allegedly occurred. The duo made it all the way to the semifinals, one week shy of the finale. Amy Ziering is a two-time Emmy award-winning and Academy award-nominated investigative filmmaker behind some of the most groundbreaking documentaries today with her creative partner Kirby Dick. For our part, as investigative filmmakers we are less focused on the adjudication of punishment on a particular individual or handful of individuals, but more interested in provoking cultural shifts hinged on a greater awareness and contextual understanding of cultural givens that are problematic and need to be dismantled. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. Amy Ziering: First of all, any type of rape is something very difficult to talk about. [3][4] She grew up in Beverly Hills, California. These accusations are false and have been flatly contradicted by Ms. Dixon., Dixon wrote in another text message that Ziering repeatedly referred to survivors shed been interviewing as the other Drews, a description that Dixon found offensive., No African American filmmaker would have said that, Jones says. As On the Record was being finished, Dixon asked a family friend, Ann Walker Marchant, who runs her own public relations firm in Washington, D.C., to represent her. The first season of Beverly Hills, 90210, an American teen drama television series aired from October 4, 1990, on Fox and concluded on May 9, 1991, after 22 episodes. Ziering got agitated that Dixon hadnt used the encrypted messaging app Signal, because Ziering was worried that if the email leaked it made it look like the subject was influencing the film, according to a text message written by Dixon at the time. Ziering and Dicks films are grounded in fact, but most effective is their ability to breathe life into these stories, illuminating the intimate and personal ways each subject has been affected by trauma. But aside from that, I dont think we should abandon the art. Martin Sheen narrated. Not only can it be disorienting to recognize a spouse or a parent as a perpetrator, but, as a society, we simply dont want to believe that such things happen to children. I thought it was inappropriate, Jones says. But on a much more positive note: The positive reception to Allen v. Farrow points to how much things have, in many ways, changed for the better. Documentary 2020 1 hr 35 min. Ian Ziering is a famous American actor and playwright. The birth date is 30-Mar-64. Although reluctant, they said they would, and she offered suggestions. "The parties have entered into a written agreement regarding their . It was released on February 27, 2015,[14] an edited version aired on CNN on November 22, 2015,[15][16] and the DVD was released the week of December 1, 2015. [33] Ziering said, "People at long last are speaking out in large numbers, and we feel this industry, and the country, is finally ready for an unflinching film about the reality of sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood. Having barely slept the night before out of nerves, Jones was startled when she overheard Dick say to Ziering: Lets make sure we go over the assault three times, she recalls. Her latest project, "Not So Pretty" (2022), is a four-part investigation-driven exploration of the lurking dangers in the commodities we all use every day without question for makeup, skin-care, nails, and hair. That just didnt not happen in my universe prior to #MeToo. In 2015, The Hunting Ground, about sexual assault in college campuses, premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. Ian Ziering is a renowned American American actor and voice actor. By mid-December 2019, as Winfrey asked for significant changes to be made to the movie, the filmmakers went into full panic mode. He married nurse Erin Ziering on May 28, 2010, but the couple divorced in late October 2019. It follows the custody battle between Allen and his former partner Mia Farrow, his marriage to her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who is 35 years younger than Allen, and the events of subsequent years. I never had a conversation with anyone at OWN, and I dont know Ava DuVernay. In 2013, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for producing the Dick-directed film The Invisible War. But the fact that there is a #MeToo movement, the fact that people are calling me and asking me to talk about this, the fact that there is funding for these kinds of films, the fact that survivors are feeling safe with coming forward, thats a big change. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. In mid-January, Dixon fired Marchant prior to Sundance. Zierings films have the odd distinction of straddling both sides of the #MeToo movement, beginning not long after Tarana Burke coined the hashtag in 2006 and stretching through its proliferation in 2017. The screenwriter Jenny Lumet, who alleges that Simmons sexually violated her in 1991, spent a day in Brooklyn filming for On the Record, talking on camera to Dixon and Sil Lai Abrams, another survivor in the film. Either way, its still a forum for me to tell my story. More recently, they flew in the face of Hollywood, examining the allegations of sexual abuse against music mogul Russell Simmons in 2020s On the Record and director Woody Allen in HBOs 2021 miniseries Allen v. Farrow. While everyone was waiting to see what Winfrey would do, Marchant booked three of the survivors Dixon, Jones and Abrams for an interview on CBS This Morning with correspondent Michelle Miller. But Variety has learned some of the experts featured in the film had no idea they were going to be part of a Simmons documentary. In this writing, we have added the Ian Ziering's age, height, weight, net worth, girlfriend/affairs here. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 82% based on 56 reviews. Im interested in bigger questions. Every work of art has its creators signature all over it; everyoness personal history informs their art in both conscious and unconscious ways. This was when my mental health began to fall apart, says Jones, who felt betrayed that he was speaking on her behalf. [Variety] implies that Drew Dixon a sexual assault survivor whose story is documented in the film was berated, scolded, triggered and otherwise mistreated by film producer Amy Ziering, Drooz, the filmmakers lawyer, says in a letter to Variety. Herdy wrote: We dont operate the same way as journalists this is a film project very much in the corner of advocacy for victims, so there would be no insensitive questions or the need to get the perpetrators side., When things started to unravel with On the Record, a high-profile sexual assault survivor told Jones about these articles. Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick are locked in a battle of wills during a music session with a group of editors in early February. The directors muzzled me, when I thought the film would be the thing that set me free.. They have been excoriated in the press," she said. Ahead of its debut, the series was criticized for being one sided and dismissingthe perspectives of Allen's wife and Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn, and Mia Farrow's adopted son Moses Farrow who has accused Mia of abuse. In Allen v Farrow, Woody asserted that he himself was the hapless victim, not his child. His Sharknado co-star was one source the actor was able to turn to during the difficult times. As the interview progressed, Jones felt like Ziering knew nothing about her. And if your doctor says youll need a medical device, she suggests asking if you can see the studies on the device, how long they have been in use and whether they have had any adverse consequences for other people who have used them. I remember with Invisible War having to remind myself to smile when Id go on TV, or [Id be coached], 'Don't be so angry when you talk about sexual assault,' Ziering says. Ziering and Reid became close enough behind-the-scenes to the point where they were at the level of confiding in one another, as illustrated when Ziering suddenly found himself faced with divorce. Now my dad spent his teenage years in concentration camps. One of these women says she was originally told she was being interviewed for a documentary about a different topic that Ziering and Dick were working on. Im wondering if you have thoughts on the separation or the lack thereof between the art and the artist. I think the people that know me and talk to me, they were hurt. What's Normal & Not Normal During a Massage? So its often very confusing for everyone in the family to understand how to negotiate and accurately interpret events. Like what do you mean? Although shed initially sided with the filmmakers and spoke out against Winfrey in an interview before the Sundance premiere shes now come to believe the mogul was right to cut ties with On the Record., Oprah has a standard, Jones says. I was like, I don't even get it. R. Starring Sil Lai Abrams, Tarana Burke, Kimberl Williams Crenshaw. Dixon, who is also represented by Mazie, didnt comment on the record for this story. Kirby Dick and Amy Zierings On the Record premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Winfrey had signed on in June 2019 as the projects executive producer, with plans to release the film as part of her deal with Apple TV Plus. And no one certainly wants to hear stories about women raped in the military. But after #MeToo gained momentum, Zierings cell phone exploded. 15+. Eli Glasner is the senior entertainment reporter and screentimecolumnist for CBC News. 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