Geoffrey Culbertson

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.

After years of riding freight trains across America to outrun tragedy, a young drifter must settle in Durham for a filmmaking project that challenges his freedom and forces him to confront the past he tried to bury. Trainhopper is a hypnotic coming-of-age road film blending documentary realism with poetic storytelling — capturing the beauty and loneliness of a life lived in motion.