Sponsored Project
A Time to Stir
Filmmaker: Paul Cronin (director), Linda Saetre (executive producer)
Fiscal Sponsorship Year: 2009
Film Type: Documentary
Documentary film about the Spring 1968 Columbia University student strikes. A Time to Stir features new interviews with leading players of a wide variety of persuasions including SDS students who occupied four buildings on campus, African-American students who were gathered on their own in Hamilton Hall, older politically active graduate students who took issue with SDS leadership, Columbia students who opposed the takeover of campus by protesters, faculty both for and against the activists, and the Tactical Patrol Force who cleared the buildings on the orders of the university administration.