Private Violence

"PRVIATE VIOLENCE begins to shape powerful, new questions that hold the potential to change our society..."

"Hill's work lingers and probes with an urgent, comprehensive call to action. PRIVATE VIOLENCE is…insistent that its troubles can be confronted head-on."

"It is a disturbing, emotional, painful, infuriating, and hard-to-watch film but it is an important one. Just by being truthful and honest with its subjects, Cynthia Hill's film feels like a call to action. Listen to it."

"...a tough, compelling and important documentary."

"An intimate and powerful exploration of domestic violence."

"There have been many documentaries on this topic...none can touch the power, sensitivity, and explanatory skill of this one."

"This film is hard to watch -- but that's exactly why you need to."

"PRIVATE VIOLENCE is a directive American trauma thinkpiece, insistent that its troubles can be confronted head-on."

"The obstacles against effectively protecting battered women & prosecuting their abusers are vividly illustrated."

"PRIVATE VIOLENCE illustrates not only how much domestic abuse slips through the legal and social cracks of society, but also how poorly we understand the victim's point of view."

“PRIVATE VIOLENCE…shows with shocking clarity that the worst of such cases rarely involve just a single punch, and that the problem is far more entrenched than a trending-on-Twitter moment makes it seem."

"PRIVATE VIOLENCE makes painfully clear the emotional and legal hurdles battered women endure just to feel safe again in or outside the home. Brisk and disturbing, it should be an eye-opener to anyone whose understanding of domestic violence amounts to the ignorant suggestion, "Why didn't you leave?"

"This potent documentary is a natural for public/educational tube slots, and should have an afterlife in classroom and organizational settings."