Conversation & Screening

The Five Demands: Film Screening and Discussion

Wed, Oct 18, 2023

6:30 PM–8:00 PM

Proshansky Auditorium at The CUNY Graduate Center. Registration Required.

Join us for this free in-person Film Screening and Discussion in Proshansky Auditorium at the CUNY Graduate Center. Click here to register and attend.

The Five Demands, a new documentary, tells the little-known story of the revolutionary student takeover of The City College of New York in April 1969 by a group of Black and Puerto Rican students. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, the film revisits the two-week shutdown that changed the face of higher education, as students protested institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other universities. After a screening, executive producer Stanley Nelson moderates a discussion with directors Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller, along with two of the student protesters featured in the film, Charles Powell and Rosalind Kilkenny McLymont. Nelson, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, is the award- winning director of documentaries, including Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Schiller and Weiss, an Emmy Award–winning filmmaking team, have collaborated on many internationally acclaimed films, including BeforeStonewall, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and Paris Was a Woman.

This event is hosted and sponsored by GC Presents, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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