I Am Vanessa Guillén

[Available Nov. 17 on Netflix.] Christy Wegener's in-depth, heartbreaking, touching, behind-the-scenes, gut-wrenching, eye-opening, ire-inducing, 96-minute documentary that delves into the disappearance and horrific murder by U.S. soldier Aaron David Robison and his accomplice girlfriend Cecily Aguilar in April 2020 at the Fort Hood military base in Texas of dedicated 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, whose report of sexual harassment was swept under the rug, and her close-knit family, including parents Gloria and Rogelio Guillén and sisters Lupe and Mayra, who fought for justice and passage of laws pertaining to sexual harassment protocols, explores the army's negligence in searching for and subsequently investigating Guillén's brutal, tragic murder in which she was dismembered and burned and then denying her sexual assault claims, and consists of insightful commentary by journalist Heather Osbourne, attorney Natalie Khawam, House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congresswomen (such as Kirsten Gillibrand, Sylvia Garcia, and Jackie Speier), Congressman Markwayne Mullin, Protect Our Defenders President Col. Don Christensen, U.S. Army veteran survivor's advocate Lucy C. Del Gaudio, Fort Hood Army Base Commander Scott Efflandt, EquuSearch Missing Persons founder Tim Miller, Criminal Investigations Division senior special agent Damon Phelps, senators (such as Tammy Duckworth, Joni Ernst, Jack Reed, and Chuck Schumer), boyfriend Juan Cruz, attorney Natalie Khawam's parents John and Marcelle Khawam, and Fort Hood soldiers and Vanessa's friends Tay Hightower, CJ Landy, and Frida Hernandez Lopez.
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