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Five years before 鈥� a month after she arrived to campus as a freshman 鈥� Corsie was raped in her dorm room by another student.

She called campus police and two male officers came to take her report. They told her that under 蜜柚直播 law, what happened to her was considered consensual.

The officers advised Corsie not to mix alcohol and beauty, wrote her case number on a business card and that was the end of it. Corsie put the card away and didn鈥檛 look at it for more than a decade, she said in an interview with the Star.

On Oct. 7, 2016, in response to the Access Hollywood Trump tapes, writer Kelly Oxford posted a tweet that changed Corsie鈥檚 life: 鈥淲omen: tweet me your first assaults. they aren鈥檛 just stats.鈥�

Corsie replied, 鈥淩aped fresh yr of college. Police said 鈥榙on鈥檛 mix beauty and booze鈥� this is the first time I鈥檝e publicly said that. #notokay鈥�

The tweet got hundreds of thousands of interactions, including a documentary filmmaker who wanted to share her story.

鈥淚 just thought, if anyone is going to tell my story, it should be me,鈥� Corsie, a filmmaker, told the Star.

She contacted her friend and fellow filmmaker Amy Rosner and the two got to work.

But the final product did more than just tell Corsie鈥檚 story. In the film, 鈥淪econd Assault,鈥� Corsie confronts the campus police officer who took her report more than a decade prior.

鈥淚 can鈥檛 say enough good things about him,鈥� Corsie told the Star. 鈥淗e was really wonderful and he agreed to meet with me on camera, never having met with me in person before. What you see in the film, when we come together and have that conversation, that鈥檚 exactly how it played out.鈥�

Corsie said she was so anxious during the meeting with the officer, who still works in the University of 蜜柚直播 Police Department. The department did not respond to the 蜜柚直播鈥檚 request for comment.

She鈥檚 also anxious about returning to 蜜柚直播 this weekend, saying she never believed she鈥檇 be back.

鈥淚 had such a miserable experience that freshman year that it really put a dark cloud over my entire college experience,鈥� Corsie told the Star.

But she鈥檚 back for a good reason: To screen 鈥淪econd Assault鈥� in the Loft Film Festival鈥檚 Shorts Showcase and at a second showing on the UA campus. Both events will be followed by question-and-answer sessions.

鈥淲hat this really is about is believing survivors,鈥� Rosner told the Star. 鈥淚 think for Jillian to confront someone after all these years, especially in the climate we鈥檙e in right now, there absolutely is a public narrative of sorts happening.鈥�

While some people still believe survivors are lying, there鈥檚 a more open forum to discuss issues of assault and consent, Rosner said.

鈥淭he driving force behind the film is how do we have conversations to change the narrative?鈥� Rosner said. 鈥淎 lot of these are conversations we haven鈥檛 had in public, and now it鈥檚 coming out more and more. There seems to be more spaces to have survivors validate their reality and their story.鈥�

While sexual assault is a problem across the country, it seems to be magnified on college campuses. On top of that, the reporting process isn鈥檛 easy for victims to navigate, Corsie said.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a saying that its easier to get kicked out of a university for plagiarizing than it is for raping another student,鈥� Rosner said. 鈥淲e all know the survivor is the one that goes on trial. The focus isn鈥檛 on the one that committed the assault, and usually they end up staying in school with the person they assaulted.鈥�

Rosner said that while the situation for sexual assault survivors hasn鈥檛 improved politically in the years since Corsie鈥檚 experience, there鈥檚 finally a public discourse on the subject of assault.

鈥淚鈥檓 not sure that would have happened before #MeToo,鈥� Rosner said. 鈥淲e didn鈥檛 know #MeToo was going to happen, we were making the film two years before, but we sort of had this weird coincidence of our film coming out when #MeToo was happening. Maybe it created a more fertile ground for more engaging discussions.鈥�

The film has been screened at film festivals across the country over the past several months, with Q&As after each screening. Corsie and Rosner said they鈥檝e been impressed with the conversations that have arisen during the screening and the level of engagement from local communities.

鈥淎fter the first screening, there was a woman in her 60s who came up to me and said our generation is giving her generation the voice they never had,鈥� Corsie said. 鈥淭hat makes me feel like we are making a difference, even if it鈥檚 as small as starting conversations.鈥�