Unverified: the Film is making a final Kickstarter push to raise funds to help reach wider distribution channels.
You can get a glimpse of what's in store from the trailer:
Update 12/17/2015 - Unverified hit its Kickstarter goal shortly after this article was published, and Bradley Bethel appeared on Chapelboro.com to talk about the film. You can find his comments here.
The voice-over, montage narration in the trailer provides a taste of the counter-narrative that the documentary will be presenting in contrast to the more widespread narrative promoted by most media, the Wainstein Investigation Report, and other viewpoints that, for the last couple of years, have sought to tie the academic scandal to the UNC athletics program:
"Reporters love a scandal because you get a morality play. You get villains and you get crusaders."
~ Will Blythe (author/editor)
"North Carolina reeling from a blow -- a really big blow -- to its reputation, especially its integrity of its legendary sports program."
~ Ashleigh Banfield (CNN)
"The largest academic fraud scandal in the history of college sport."
~ Sara Ganim (CNN)
"What I would like to see, actually, is for UNC to voluntarily vacate those championships."
~ Jay Smith (UNC History Professor, Athletic Reform Group)
"Former learning specialist Mary Willingham blew the whistle about bogus classes at UNC. Our Tate Frazier spoke to her replacement, Bradley Bethel, who says he's trying to set the record straight."
~ Carolina Week (UNC Student-Run TV News)
"When you see such harsh accusations in print, and you weren't expecting it, it's like a sucker punch. You know, a lot of them felt sucker punched."
~ Bradley Bethel (former UNC learning specialist)
"There's no coach who's in charge of how the academic side works"
~ Jay Bilas (ESPN commentator and NCAA critic)
"We have kids who aren't as academically gifted as others, and the people who tried to help them out."
~ E.J. Wilson (former UNC football player)
"I was just an academic counselor who was just trying to help students figure out how to get through college."
~ Jamie Lee (former UNC student-athlete counselor)
"I don't think there's always room for that compassion. That's the other side of the story."
~ unidentified
"You can't judge all the athletes that went to Carolina because of a couple of guys making some bad mistakes."
~ Dre Bly (former UNC football player)
"I still think this an academic problem, not an athletic problem. I think athletics got drug into it because of the media."
~ Joe Holladay (former UNC assistant men's basketball coach)
"A lot of times when investigations or media interviews -- the person running the investigation and or the media -- they've already got the story written."
~ Butch Davis (former UNC head football coach)
"That report said it exactly how they wanted to say it. It didn't matter what any of us were going to say; let's put it out there."
~ Beth Bridger (former UNC student-athlete counselor)
"This is at a level that you can tread on individuals and not care about the truth or the facts."
~ John Blanchard (former UNC associate athletics director)
