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Kenzie and Ame are back! This week, they are discussing the Netflix documentary Roll Red Roll. This is the case of the rape and dehumanization of a 16 year old girl by a couple of the star players on the high school football team in Steubenville, Ohio. An end of summer party turns dark in the wee hours of the morning when an unconscious Jane Doe is taken advantage of, while also having several spectators to her assault. Not only was there photographs taken, but the whole town's teenage population seemed to speak openly about it on social media. When it looked as though this would be yet another case being swept under the rug for the beloved Big Red football team, a local blogger took it upon herself to expose the posted these kids so carelessly left all over the internet. This started the wildfire that would sweep the nation and even gain global attention for the brutal and callus things many young women have had to endure at the hands of their popular male peers. 

Roll Red Roll is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep- seated and social media-fueled "boys will be boys" culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Director & Producer Nancy expands on the true story of the 2012 rape case of Jane Doe, how social media played a role in the case, and what she wishes her audience to take away from this "bone chilling" documentary.

We review some of the films playing the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival including No Box For Me. A Intersex Story; The Cleaners; Roll Red Roll; and Life Without Basketball. We also talk about the new documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes.