BamaRush director Rachel Fleit didn’t initially set out to make a documentary that included her own personal struggles with acceptance.
“Bama Rush” director Rachel Fleit didn’t initially set out to make a documentary that included her own personal struggles with acceptance. But after months of shooting and sharing with her subjects , paralleled with escalating threats online from those unhappy about the documentary’s focus, Fleit made the difficult decision to turn the lens on herself.Doc Dreams, presented by National Geographic.
You follow several women in the documentary; one of them is drugged and another is sexually assaulted. It’s horrifically depressing how common it feels and to see what young women have to go through in society to the point that it’s almost been normalized. Were you surprised by some of their reactions to being roofied?
I think there’s room for improvement. I also think there are incredible things and things that are not so great. I knew that if I stood in my truth and stuck with my intention, that there was nothing to be afraid of. Because I do believe when people see this film, they will understand that it’s so much more than what they fear or what they think it could be. Sorority culture has not been portrayed well in mainstream media, and so I understand.
My editor said around January, “I think you need to be in this movie.” I was like, “What? No. I’m behind the camera. I’m not in front of the camera. That’s not my thing. I don’t do that. That’s not my style. I’m a fly on the wall.” Then I realized at a certain point that if I was going to create the empathy that I felt was necessary for the young women in this film, I had to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them and say, “Me too. I also wanted to belong and this is what I did.
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