Roll Red Roll

Roll Red Roll is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Nancy Schwartzman and produced by Jessica Devaney and Steven Lake, under the banner of Sunset Park Pictures. The documentary is based on the Steubenville High School rape case.[1] It features true crime blogger Alexandria Goddard prominently, as the person who first brought the case to public attention.

Roll Red Roll
Directed byNancy Schwartzman
Produced byJessica Devaney
Steven Lake
Nancy Schwartzman
Maxyne Franklin
StarringAlexandria Goddard
Music byNima Fakhrara
CinematographyMatt Bockelman
Production
company
Sunset Park Pictures
Release date
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

The documentary looks into the Steubenville High School rape case that occurred on August, 2012. It also documents Alexandra Goddard's investigation and documentation of the crimes through her true crime blog.[2]

Cast
  • Alexandria Goddard as herself

Reception

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 100%, based on 27 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.27/10.[3] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score, rates the film 83 out of 100, based on 9 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".[4]

Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, "A tough but essential watch, “Roll Red Roll” documents how a sexual assault in a declining Appalachian town became an international cause célèbre."[5] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "... piercingly relevant and disturbing documentary about an infamous high school rape case...".[6] Oliver Jones of The Observer wrote, "And while it is good that a director as versed on the subject of consent as Schwartzman is bringing her unwavering eye to the problem, it makes it all the more painful that we seem even further away from solving the issue then we were on that fateful August night in Ohio seven years ago."[7] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Difficult to watch, but essential viewing."[8]

Accolades
Year Award Category Result Refs.
2018 Nantucket Film Festival Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Filmmaking Award Won [9]
Monmouth Film Festival Best Feature Documentary Won [10]
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Clio Visualizing History Award Won [11]
BendFilm Festival Best Feature Won [12]
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival Best Film Won [13]
2019 Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US Spotlight Award Nominated [14]
Cleveland International Film Festival Local Heroes Competition Nominated [15]
Excellence in Directing by a Woman Nominated

References
  1. Cipriani, Casey. "This New Steubenville Rape Case Doc Aims To Open Men's Eyes To Rape Culture". Bustle. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  2. Forde, Kaelyn (March 21, 2019). "How One Crime Blogger Helped Expose the Steubenville High School Rape". Inside Edition. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  3. "Roll Red Roll (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  4. "Roll Red Roll". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  5. Catsoulis, Jeannette (2019-03-21). "'Roll Red Roll' Review: A Horrifying Assault in a Small Ohio Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  6. Gleiberman, Owen (2019-03-22). "Film Review: 'Roll Red Roll'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  7. "Little Has Been Done to Address Campus Sexual Assault, Documentary 'Red Red Roll' Reminds". Observer. 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  8. Scheck, Frank (April 29, 2018). "'Roll Red Roll': Film Review | Tribeca 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  9. "Awards". Nantucket Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  10. "Monmouth Film Festival | 2018 Winners". Film Festival | United States | Monmouth Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  11. "THE 2018 VTEDDY AWARDS". Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  12. Film, Author Bend (2018-10-14). "BendFilm 2018 Short and Feature Film Awards". BENDFILM. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  13. Roll Red Roll - IMDb, retrieved 2019-03-27
  14. "Spotlight Award Archives". The 2019 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  15. "Films A-Z - Cleveland International Film Festival :: March 27 - April 7, 2019". www.clevelandfilm.org. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
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