Nancy Schwartzman is a Peabody Award-nominated documentary film director and producer who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. Her documentary feature debut, Roll Red Roll, was nominated for a Peabody award, premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and garnered 7 best documentary awards. It streamed in 190 countries on Netflix, PBS, and BBC. She is currently directing a Netflix original documentary feature with Reveal: Center for Investigative Reporting and Motto Pictures that will premiere in 2022. Her recent short film One Shot One Kill (2020), explored gun culture for Mother Jones, and her short film Anonymous Comes To Town (2019), co-produced with the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci's Chime for Change, garnered over a 4.5 million views on the Guardian. Her first film, The Line (2010), a short documentary examining consent, was used by the White House for a campaign around sexuality, and her follow-up film xoxosms (2013), was on PBS/POV and BBC, exploring love between two teenagers, bridged by technology. A globally recognized human rights activist, Nancy is a tech founder and created the Obama/Biden White House's award-winning mobile app Circle of 6, designed to reduce sexual violence among America's youth and college students. She has presented her work at the White House, the United Nations, TEDxSheffield, CNN, Forbes, Good Pitch, DOCNYC and at over 60 colleges and universities. She is a graduate of Columbia University and a recent transplant to Los Angeles.Nora Zelevansky is the author of novels Competitive Grieving, Will You Won't You Want Me?, and Semi-Charmed Life. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, ELLE, Town & Country, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair among others. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two kids, and enormous cat, Waldo.
"Roll Red Roll is a great read."--Lake County Examiner
"A searing book."--Forbes
**A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection**
**One of the New York Times' "Books to Read in July"**
"Schwartzman does an excellent job of detailing how and why both
sides came to their conclusions and offers a detailed history of
the town and its long-grown rape culture...In some of the most
cutting passages in the book, Schwartzman details just how the Big
Red football program attempted to protect its players--and its
program--at all costs...her book is worth reading for this
criticism alone....The way Schwartzman does a deep dive into how
these issues may have been caused within these young men goes above
and beyond authorial due diligence."--True Crime Index
"It's the grim ordinariness of the Steubenville rape case... that
shines through most brightly in Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll.
A meticulous account of the 'first rape case ever to go viral in
the United States, ' the book moves from the facts of one summer
night in Rust Belt Ohio into a broader reckoning with American
masculinity and the emerging influence of the internet on sexual
assault cases. Schwartzman clearly conveys the brutal banality of
what happened in that town, the way rape culture, victim blaming
and institutional complicity are the rule rather than the exception
in American communities. Steubenville could be
anywhere."Schwartzman's compassionate attention to these figures
renders her depiction of their moral failures all the more damning:
These are human beings, otherwise capable of responsibility and
empathy, who did not manage to show these traits to Jane
Doe."--Moira Donegan, The New York Times Book Review
"Powerful and compelling... Schwartzman and her coauthor Zelevansky
give readers an inside look at rape culture, victim blaming and
shaming, and the need to provide comprehensive sex education...
This first-rate book will appeal to anyone interested in feminism,
women and gender studies, or criminal justice."--Library
Journal
"Schwartzman, director of the award-winning documentary Roll Red
Roll (the rallying cry of Steubenville football fans) brings to
[the book] the benefit of historical perspective (Donald Trump's
campaign; the #MeToo movement) and her filmmaker's eye, laying out
the events and aftermath in exacting detail....This compelling
account offers heartbreaking evidence of the pervasive, systemic,
and toxic misogyny that thrives in many American
communities."--Booklist
"A scathing examination of American rape culture, promoted and
abetted by athletics....A maddening, well-documented account of
crime without punishment even as violence against women continues
unabated."--Kirkus Reviews
"Roll Red Roll is a searing account...Schwartzman's sense of
outrage fuels the narrative, but never overwhelms it. This tragic
cautionary tale deserves a wide audience."--Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
"Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman's deep dive on the Steubenville case
is a must-read for anyone interested in the culture that produces
sexual assault."--Samhita Mukhopadhyay, co-editor of Nasty Women:
Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
"Nancy Schwartzman has given us the gift of an immersive, gripping
narrative that thoughtfully explores the cultural rot behind one of
the twenty-first century's most notorious cases of sexual violence
(so far). Roll Red Roll documents not just a shocking episode of
violence and its aftermath but a germinal moment in our recent
cultural history, one that pointed the way to #MeToo. This is true
crime you'll never have to apologize for loving."--Kate Harding,
author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--And
What We Can Do About It
"What Nancy Schwartzman does with Roll Red Roll is not only provide
a necessary examination of pressing issues, but a compelling one.
This book dives deep into the American political and social
landscape to wrestle with issues of power, misogyny, and problems
both apparent and disturbingly hidden. By the end, it changes the
way you look at the world. It should be widely read and
discussed--we'd all be better off for it."--Jared Yates Sexton,
author of American Rule: How A Nation Conquered the World But
Failed Its People
"Roll Red Roll reads like a riveting true crime story while the
reader is being carefully led through a masterful assessment of the
root causes of rape culture....A must-read."--Dr. Caroline Heldman,
Executive Director of The Representation Project, Chair of Critical
Theory & Social Justice, Chair of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
at Occidental College
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