Raw Deal Featured Festival Articles

New York Post - Rape, Lies, and Videotapes  - "Victim relives horror caught live on frathouse film"

New York Post - "Raw Deal" Furor Prompts Bidding Frenzy  - "A bidding war erupted yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival as studios scrambled to buy a documentary containing shocking footage of frat-house sex, including an alleged rape. "

LA Times - Sex Case Documentary Sirring Up Audiences  - "Explicitness of footage shot during campus incident has angered some moviegoers."

Entertainment Weekly - Sundance Film Festival Recap  - "It's the ultra-explicit reality show you'll never see on TV - a shockumentary that forever shatters the boundaries of what a theatrical feature can, should, and will depict."

The Nation - The West Indies  - "Once Raw Deal played Sundance, the New York Post splashed it all over its front page..."

Financial Times - Day 3 Raw Deal  - "No film festival is complete without controversy."

The Scotsman - City Hosts UK's First Showing of 'Rape' Film  - "A controversial documentary including footage of an alleged rape is set to have what could be its only British showing at the Film Festival from tonight."

St. Petersburg Times - The Surreal Whirl that is Sundance  - "Alfred Spellman's and Billy Corben's documentary Raw Deal: A Question of Consent arrived at the festival on a whirlwind of controversy and left with a distribution deal."

St. Petersburg Times - FIlm Documents Controversial UF Fraternity Party  - "Two Miami filmmakers are making waves at a prestigious film festival with a documentary based on a 1999 incident at a University of Florida fraternity house."

Orlando Weekly - "No" Means "Go"  - "The Florida Film Festival encountered unexpected controversy Tuesday, when a legal representative of Artisan Entertainment allegedly faxed festival staffers a 23-page "cease and desist" order mandating that they not screen the documentary Raw Deal: A Question of Consent, which was scheduled to be shown that night at the Colonial Promenade."

Orlando Sentinel - Dispute Nearly Stops Edgy Film  - "The show did go on Tuesday night at the 11th annual Florida Film Festival. But it almost didn't. Because of a dispute between the filmmakers and the company that claims North American distribution rights, Raw Deal: A Question of Consent was nearly pulled from the festival program at the Colonial Promenade 6. "

The Hot Button - "One of the Most Important Documentaries in at Least a Decade"  - "Raw Deal: A Question of Consent is everything the buzz says it is and more."

City Beat - Five of the best films from Sundance 2001 are coming to a theater near you

City Beat - Party on Dude! - "Can't Buy Me Buzz. The headline of the Jan. 25 New York Post says it all: "Rape, Lies and Videotape -- Victim relives horror caught live on frat house tape." With that one story, Raw Deal: A Question of Consent, a documentary about an accused rape at the University of Florida, has become the official "buzz" film of Sundance 2001."