The Invisible War
Short film Completed 2012
Director
Kirby Dick
Doc Society helped with
Impact
Went to Good Pitch
Runtime: 98 minutes
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The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within our US military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire with the number of assaults in the last decade alone in the hundreds of thousands.
Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of several young women, the film reveals the systemic cover up of the crimes against them and follows their struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. The Invisible War features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm conditions that exist for rape in the military, its history of cover-up, and what can be done to bring about much needed change.
Outreach Work Supported
Early influencer screenings and campaign to engage policymakers.
Crew
Kirby Dick
Director
Kirby Dick is an Academy Award-nominated documentary director, one of the most prolific and eclectic filmmakers working in the field today. Five of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and have screened at the Venice, Berlin, Toronto, San Sebastian, Locarno, Edinburgh, Yamagata Film Festivals and many others.
Dick is known for making intensely personal psychological profiles as well as for undertaking groundbreaking undercover investigations. His earlier work focused on subjects and issues that have traditionally been taboo, such as death, sadomasochism, and sexual abuse, and he has been compared to the photographer Diane Arbus in the way he prefers “to open the camera lens to the pained, the freakish and the inexplicable that exists on the margins of everyday life." More recently, his films have focused on important political and social issues, using novel undercover investigative techniques to expose the hypocrisy and damage caused by some of the United States’ most powerful institutions.
