We Demand (2016) [N/A]
Featuring:
Ricky Goldman, Richard Warner, Ryan Leach
Written by:
Kevin Jerome Everson
Claudrena Harold
Directed by:
Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena Harold
Release Date:
February 12, 2016
Original Title:
We Demand
Genres:
Drama
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 10
We Demand revisits a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University of Virginia in 1970, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement. The film reenacts the delivery of two sets of demands regarding action to be taken on campus and in the wider political sphere, spoken by budding activist James R. Roebuck, the first African American president of UVA’s Student Council.
We Demand tells the story of the anti-Vietnam War Movement from the perspective of James R. Roebuck, a northern-born African American who studied at the University of Virginia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Over a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University, Roebuck, the first African American president of UVA's Student Council, confronted a series of political challenges and existential dilemmas. This budding activist and future U.S. representative was the quintessential militant insider whose cool temperament and ideological flexibility proved quite useful as UVA appeared on the verge of imploding from within. The film is another collaboration of UVA colleagues Claudrena N. Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, who co-directed the 2013 short films "Sugarcoated Arsenic" and "U. of Va. Charlottesville, 1976".
