Deborah Kampmeier

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Deborah Kampmeier is a film director known for the films Hounddog and Virgin.

Films

Kampmeier's film Hounddog debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 in the dramatic category, where it was met with a significant amount of controversy over its content. The film features a 12 year old girl named Lewellen played by Dakota Fanning, who lives with her "abusive father and alcoholic grandmother". The inclusion of a non-graphic rape scene caused Christian film critics and activists to negatively comment on the film, with it being called "child abuse" and Bill Donohue calling for a federal investigation against Kampmeier. Donohue stated that the film was breaking anti-pornography laws and that Dakota Fanning was being exploited.[1]

The Sundance Film Festival organizer, Geoffrey Gilmore, praised Kampmeier for trying to cover "challenging material". Kampmeier responded to the criticism by explaining that Fanning and the two other child actors in the film, Cody Hanford and Isabelle Fuhrman, were only acting and decried the attacks against "my mother, my agent ... my teacher, who were all on the set that day" by critics.[1] Fanning also stated herself, "I'm not going through anything like that, it's just my character. It's just another scene and wasn't any different from anything else I've done" and said that the controversy was "blown out of proportion".[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Staff writer (January 24, 2007). "Controversy swirls around ‘Hounddog’". MSNBC. Retrieved August 26, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Staff writer (January 24, 2007). "Outcry over Fanning child rape scene". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved August 26, 2012. 


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