Surviving Ohio State OTT Release Date: When and where to watch HBO¡¯s sexual abuse scandal documentary in India
Surviving Ohio State OTT Release Date: This documentary tells the real stories of male athletes abused by a university doctor, exposing years of silence, cover-ups and the survivors' fight for justice.
Surviving Ohio State OTT Release Date: Directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker Eva?Orner, who also won an Oscar for her work exposing abuse, the 108-minute feature peels back nearly two decades of horrific wrongdoing at Ohio State University between 1978 and 1998. Surviving Ohio State lands in India on JioHotstar on June 18, just a day after its U.S. debut on HBO and Max on June 17.
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Surviving Ohio State's backbone is the investigative work of journalist Jon Wertheim, whose October 2020 Sports Illustrated piece laid bare ¡°Why Aren¡¯t More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?¡±. That story exploded into public consciousness, and it¡¯s the jump?off point for Orner¡¯s relentless search to understand how so many powerful people looked the other way.
On screen, real survivors, largely male athletes, many former standouts in wrestling, share chilling memories: locker-room exams, secretive deflections, silence from coaches and administrators who ¡°just dealt with it.¡± We hear from men like Mark Coleman (later a UFC heavyweight champion), the DiSabato brothers, Will Knight, Al Novakowski, Rocky Ratliff, Dan Ritchie, Mike Schyck, Stephen Snyder?Hill, and even a wrestling referee, Frederick Feeney.
Their voices carry incredible weight because, as one survivor reflects on-screen: ¡°You walk into a room, and Doc tells you to turn the lights off... Who you gonna tell?¡±. Behind the scenes, Orner approached Surviving Ohio State with sensitivity: she spent months building trust, speaking with about 100 survivors before a core group felt ready to go public.
She even screened the finished cut privately with them, complete with mental health support, to make sure they¡¯re seen with dignity, not sensationalised. The crew is also stacked: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and David Glasser joined as producers for Smokehouse Pictures/HBO Sports, with cinematographer Nick Higgins and editor Charles Olivier shaping the story¡¯s flow; composer Cornel Wilczek provides the music.
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