Director/Producer: Hilary Klotz Steinman Producers: Heidi Reavis, Steven M. Engel
Description:
After surviving a life-threatening sexual assault in her hometown of Lindsborg, Kansas, college freshman Madison Smith and her parents were stunned when the local county prosecutor declined to file charges against the rapist, despite a strong case and compelling physical evidence. Traumatized by both the assault itself and her treatment by the police and prosecutor, Madison never wavered from the conviction that her attacker must be held accountable. She and her family refused to let the criminal justice system deny the facts and ignore her case, or to give up their quest for legal consequences.
Biography:
Hilary Klotz Steinman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary film producer and director with over twenty years of experience producing vérité, historical, and investigative documentary films. Her work has been featured on PBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and Al Jazeera. Her recent projects include The Codebreaker for the PBS series American Experience, Death by Design, Children of the Inquisition, Going Blind, Test Tube Babies, and the Emmy-winning The Pill.
Heidi Reavis’ legal career started in the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the Manhattan DA’s Office. She founded Reavis Page Jump LLP specializing in employment discrimination and media law. It was the firm’s work that triggered the #MeToo movement in 2017 when their client’s file was leaked from the Weinstein Corporation to The New York Times exposing Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of sexual abuse.
Steven M. Engel is an award-winning producer, executive producer and president of Engel Entertainment, a widely-respected non-fiction production company of hundreds of prime-time empathetic programming and award-winning feature documentaries leading to concrete social and legislative change. Engel produced the Emmy Award-winning documentary, A Walk to Beautiful, winning Best Feature Documentary Award from the IDA among 35 other awards. Engel is an executive producer of the award-winning Missing in Brooks County, airing on PBS’s Independent Lens.
