Agents of Change
FILM SYNOPSIS
From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960’s. Through the stories of these young men and women who were at the forefront of these efforts, Agents of Change examines the untold story of the racial conditions on college campuses and in the country that led to these protests. The film’s characters were caught at the crossroads of the civil rights, black power, and anti-Vietnam war movements at a pivotal time in America’s history. Today, over 45 years later, many of the same demands are surfacing in campus protests across the country, revealing how much work remains to be done.
Agents of Change links the past to the present and the present to the past–making it not just a movie but a movement.
Agents of Change, producers FRANK R. DAWSON | CO-PRODUCER, CO-DIRECTOR
ABBY GINZBERG | CO-PRODUCER, CO-DIRECTOR
Agents of Change, Cast DANNY GLOVER, HARRY EDWARDS,
RAMONA TASCOE, JIMMY GARRETT, JERRY VANARDO
“Together We Rise”
“Together We Rise,” a 3-part doc about everyday people across California finding their power to change the “systems” that repress them. Film tackles food justice for African immigrants in San Diego, revisiting the painful past of Indian boarding schools and reclaiming native languages in the classroom on a reservation in Del Norte County, and new approaches to community healing and restorative justice from police violence against Latino men in Salinas. Premiered at the historic Crest Theater in Sacramento on June 6, 2017. Film made possible with support from The California Endowment.
Writer/Producer: cheo tyehimba taylor
Game Changer Film // Founder and Executive Producer
An award-winning writer, producer, director, author, and activist.
In 2012, as creator and executive producer of the Game Changers Project, he led the GCP Fellows to produce 30 micro-documentary films for 30 non-profits across the country that advocate for Black men and boys and was nominated for Ebony Magazine’s MANifest Award for the work.
A graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Screenwriting Track and the City University of New York Graduate School, he’s written and produced for various networks, foundations, blogs, and publications, including Time Warner, the Open Society Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ford Foundation, MSNBC.com, theGrio.com, Entertainment Weekly, People, Vibe, Essence, The Washington Post, George (where he worked with John F. Kennedy, Jr.), and others. His writing (both fiction and non-fiction) has been featured in many publications, books, and anthologies.