jameis winston, florida state university. >> reporter: jameis winston is one of football's rising stars. going to be a first-round pick in the 2015 nfl draft. but the former fsu student who accused winston of raping her one night in december 2012 is speaking out. >> i kind of just want to know -- like, why me? >> reporter: erika kinsman sharing her story in the new film "the hunting ground." using firsthand accounts of more than a dozen college students -- >> there's a lot of victim blaming. >> he lectured us about how we shouldn't go out in short skirts. >> reporter: the filmmakers are seeking to expose what they say is a shocking epidemic of violence and institutional cover-ups. >> universities are protecting a brand. >> reporter: sweeping college campuses across america. >> doesn't really make sense. >> reporter: in the film kinsman says right after the alleged rape she reported the incident to tallahassee police department. and an investigation was opened. however, winston was never charged. the state attorney calling her testimony "problematic." >> we did not feel that we had suffi

first met him, hank was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so for the two years he lived after that, jameyad and pull his bus right up to the hospital, ran up to see hank, raise hank's spirits, and just--he was always--always around. up to the night hank died, he was here. >> ♪ now tell me ♪ would these arms ♪ be in your way >> it was shortly after hank died i got a text message, and it was from jamey, and he said, "would you mind if i did a hank cochran album?" so i couldn't believe it, you know. >> ♪ so lay ♪ all your doubts aside ♪ when you go to bed tonight >> he should be in the country music hall of fame. he was very influential in setting the bar for all the writers that we have coming down the line. >> well, he was pretty much the foundation as a songwriter for a long time. >> you know, he was really an artist who chose not to be an artist. all of the artists respected his ability to perform a song. the singers wanted to see if they could just sing that good. i know i did. >> if i had to dream up somebody like hank to influence songwriters, i couldn't have done a better job. he inf

enjoy the relief. >>> this is florida state quarterback jameis winston.mber one pick in the nfl draft. this week a federal judge was asked to throw out a lawsuit by a fellow student accusing him a rape. the woman filed a lawsuit in january saying that official had knowledge of her alleged assault and this created a hostile educational environment for her. now she has spoken out for the first time in a powerful new documentary "the hunting ground." it shows the sexual assault epidemic across the country on college campuses. >> i went to see my victim's advocate. in that meeting, we were just talking. she was like, we just want to let you know like there's another victim from him. i kind of just want to know like why me? >> this is just one part of a film that also profiles survivors of sexual assault and follows two activists across the country helping them to file title nine complaints against their colleges. joining us now is the oscar-nominated producer of "the hunting ground." amy, so glad to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to star

>> for example, the accuser at florida state, jameis winston's accuser, says she's a victim.decision made on his guilt or innocence, she would walk through campus and scream at her you whore, you cleat chaser. they threatened to burn down her sorority house. this is the kind of behavior that goes beyond the victims. we've seen other witnesses, for example, involved in the penn state case their names, their addresses, their wives' names and addresses, their kids' schools have been posted to internet sites. >> even when the victims were children? >> and where there was a man convicted in a criminal court, convicted of assaulting them. there are still groups of people who encourage others to go out and harass them believing that they are lying. the way -- it's all in the name of the team all in the name of exonerating people who they just idolize. i've seen this over and over and over again, year after year now, where there's this phenomenon where we'd dollize these sports icons, make them into gods. then when they make a mistake, this whole idea we worship these people we don't

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i said to jamey, i'm going to the take off at caitlyn, catch up with us. >> we started the get draggedyou could feel the metal just crushing you, just like you're a trash compactor. the wooden boats were just being splintered to pieces up against the dock. i mean they were hitting the dock and just splintering up in the air and it was like, this is it. you know, there no way out of this one because i -- i mean i couldn't swim. i couldn't feel my left arm and i knew my wife was possibly paralyzed, the way she was screaming. i just said -- i said, "god, you need to help me out." >> i was under the black water for -- for long time. and i tried to fight to try to catch air. i don't know how i was able to arise over the debris. but there i was, seeing blue sky. >> the current was going back into the ocean and i knew if i go into the ocean it's going to be very hard to come back and it's very -- going to be very hard to survive. and there was a palm tree, first palm tree i saw. and i tried to catch the leaves and i couldn't. and as i'm doing this, there are many other people doing the same t

. >> you spoke to the woman accused heisman trophy winner jameis winston of rape.iew. >> i wen to see my victim's advocate and in that meeting, we were just talking. she was, like, we just want to let you know like, there is another victim from him. i kind of just want to know like why me? >> so winston has not been charged. state attorney dropped the case. she has filed a federal lawsuit against the title ix against the school's trustees. has winston responded to this film? >> not that we know. >> do you know what the status of the lawsuit is? >> >> i don't know. >> how about any college administrators? did you speak to them at all and, if so what was their response? >> we reached out to numerous college administrators and college presidents throughout this film and vast majority declined to speak to youus on film. >> they just said no we are not going to talk? >> for the most part, most colleges said no, they are not going to talk they prefer not to talk. they didn't see any upside in talking with us. as our film demonstrates they don't want this information gett