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PLAYING WITH FIRE

By Deborah ATTOINESE

INDIE RIGHTS - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Documentary - Completed 2024

A fellow firefighter sexually attacked and molested a very courageous 22 year veteran. Now, she discovered that she was now shunned by her peers after filing a police report on the abuse. She was unsupported. Unsafe.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 66 mn
- Director(s)
- Deborah ATTOINESE
- Producer(s)
- Kay BROWN
- Synopsis
- This is the story of Abby Bolt, a former Rodeo Queen and single mom who climbed the ranks to Battalion Chief of an elite team of firefighters for the U.S. Forest Service. In 2012, this incredibly brave 22-year-veteran was sexually assaulted and raped by a fellow firefighter. But the assault didn't stop there. She subsequently filed a police report and found she was now a pariah within her own ranks. Unsupported. Unappreciated. And unsafe. "Playing With Fire" is the story of this one woman's battle against a monolithic foe. It begins to reveal the drastic dysfunction and gender discrimination that exists within the U.S. Forest Service, an organization whose firefighting members must rely on teamwork, support, and unconditional dependability to survive. To females in the U.S. Forest Service, the fight doesn't end with the fire.