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Transcripts and they had tapes of all of the hearings. it was a fair decision. and you can see that by the proceedings that happened. you are wrong if you think this was unfair. >> mr. zalkind we appreciate you being on to share that side of the story. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> for the record, the accused, brandon winston, did participate in harvard's appeals process. he gave live testimony, via skype, and filed written objections. the acus coo ucuexcusexcuse cam nothing. required harvard law school to change that procedure, and allow each parties to participate in the disc...

Controversial sections of "the hunting ground" takes place at harvard law school, where one student, camilla willingham, accused another, brandon winston of sexual assault. >> i went into the hearing and professors were like, did i give him the wrong message with the friendship. did he misunderstand the friendship. no, because sex was never part of the friendship, and if we're ever going to be introduced, when he was awake would be a good time for that. >> in the days leading to the premiere of the film, winston's attorney issues a press release publicly naming his client and saying the film i...

Sundance premiere. we didn't want to go out to somebody if they weren't going to be in the film. the other thing that's key, other than jameis winston, whose name is public we didn't name any of the accused. we knew their names were not going to be out there. >> and yet, some of the stories are in the public record. some did go through investigations, as well as even court cases. why didn't you include, even if they rejected wanting to be interviewed on camera, why didn't you include their version that kale out in public documents? >> we included -- we actually what we did we went through thou...

Charges that he used force, no evidence whatsoever introduced at trial that he was the one responsible for the inebriated state for the women portrayed in the film as victim nor was anybody vested with final decision making authority persuaded that mr. winston was guilty of any sexual assault offense at all. mr. winston was subjected to a long, harmful ordeal for no good reason. >> well, let's start from the beginning. the film does not say that brandon winston used force. the fact that these -- the these harvard law professors are implying the film did, when in fact it didn't, already raises ...

People are coming forward for sel self-grandizing. they're coming forward because they're trying to stop a crime being commit the on someone else. that's what i think the film shows. no one is coming forward for any other reason but just to try to have justice served and have someone not perpetrate this crime on someone else. >> right. >> why didn't you reach out to get the men's side of the story, those accused? >> we did reach out, and most of them, i think, all of them, refused to speak. >> all of them. >> all of the major subjected in our film declined interview requests. we did request. >...