Andrea Weiss, The CCNY professor and The Documentary Forum Founder, co-directed and co-produced the film "The Five Demands." It makes its New York debut July 13 at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem.
The documentary film premieres in New York on Thursday, July 13 at in Harlem followed by a one-week run at the in Chinatown, beginning Friday, July 14. The CCNY professor and Founder Andrea Weiss and The CCNY alumni co-directed and co-produced the film about the 1969 shutdown, takeover, and occupation of 海角社区 by a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students.
During the 1969 furor, classes were canceled, students arrested, and the college president resigned. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, 鈥淭he Five Demands鈥 film follows the students鈥 struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from public universities.
The making of the film by Weiss and Schiller鈥檚 Jezebel Productions was a CCNY collaboration. The CCNY alumni involved included Cinematographer , Executive Producer , Production Manager Felicia Bradford, Sound Recordists Bhima Aryateja and Susan Mei, Graphics Designer Joann Huang, and others. Faculty involved in the film included Development Producer and Sound Recordist J.T. Takagi.
The film had its world premiere at the Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles in February where the film was given a standing ovation.
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