The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

Amy Ziering is a two-time Emmy award winning and Academy award nominated documentary filmmaker. Her most recent film, The Hunting Ground, a piercing, monumental exposé of rape culture on campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Her previous film, The Invisible War, is a groundbreaking investigation into the epidemic of rape in the U.S. military, won the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award 2012 for best documentary, was nominated for an Oscar and won the 2014 Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism. The film helped influence Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to announce significant policy changes. Her previous film, Outrage, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, is an indictment of the hypocrisy of powerful, closeted politicians and the institutions that protect them. Ziering also co-directed and produced Derrida, a documentary about the world-renowned French philosopher. She is the 2012 recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage and Filmmaking, the 2013 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize, the 2013 Gracie Award for Outstanding Producer - News/Non-Fiction and the 2013 Peabody Award. Ziering is currently in production on a new project for HBO. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Ziering taught literature and film at Yale University.