We Demand (2016)
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.
Directors: Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena Harold.
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Ricky Goldman as James Roebuck |
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Richard Warner as President Edgar Shannon |
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Ryan Leach as Tommy Steele |
| Directing | Kevin Jerome Everson | Director |
| Writing | Claudrena Harold | Writer |
| Directing | Claudrena Harold | Director |
| Writing | Kevin Jerome Everson | Writer |
| Production | Claudrena Harold | Producer |
| Production | Madeleine Molyneaux | Producer |
| Directing | Kahlil I. Pedizisai | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Lindsey Arturo | Second Assistant Director |
| Sound | Jack Doerner | Sound |
| Sound | Varun Melkani | Sound |
| Sound | Phyllis Li | Sound |
| Sound | Jordan Stuger | Sound |
| Sound | Mary Davis | Sound |
| Sound | Lindsey Arturo | Sound |
| Camera | Maddie Bartel | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Rox Campbell | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Anthony Restivo | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Deidre Davie | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Renee Reighart | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Geoffrey Culbertson | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Julia Sharpe | Lighting Camera |
| Crew | Sandy Williams | Lighting Camera |
| Crew | Madison Lee | Lighting Camera |
| Crew | Charlotte Raskovich | Lighting Camera |
| Crew | Roxanna Trujillo | Lighting Camera |
| Costume & Make-Up | Claudrena Harold | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Robert Holden | Costume Design |
| Sound | Courtney Bryan | Music |