Stop the genocide! Let Gaza live!
CeasefireMV
The Encampments
Sunday, April 27 2:00 p.m.
Strand Theatre, Oak Bluffs
11 Oak Bluffs Ave 02557
CeasefireMV, in collaboration with Olive Branch Fair Trade and Expanding The Conversation, is pleased to present a screening of the film The Encampments, which documents the 2024 student protests against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and the complicity of universities.
Tickets are $20, or pay what you can. Advance purchases through Venmo are encouraged; additional donations are gratefully accepted.
The Encampments chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment and the international wave of student activism it ignited. Executive Produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Macklemore, the film is directed by Kei Pritsker, a journalist and producer at BreakThrough News, and award-winning filmmaker Michael T. Workman (Meantime).
Through exclusive footage and intimate interviews, The Encampments provides an unprecedented look at one of the most significant student movements in modern history. The film captures the passion, resilience, and challenges faced by students who risked everything to demand justice. The Encampments examines why universities responded with mass arrests and force rather than engagement and dialogue, and sheds light on the institutions’ efforts to suppress student activism.
The Columbia encampment began in April 2024 when nearly 50 students pitched tents on university grounds, beginning an occupation that would grow into a nationwide protest movement. The documentary follows the dramatic escalation, from Columbia’s administration banning student organizations for Palestine to the mass arrests that broke a 50-year police ban on campus. As students faced police raids, media attacks, and institutional repression, their movement spread to universities across the country and beyond, making history in real time. The documentary includes access to the student organizers at several encampments, and also a whistleblower from high-up in the administration of an Ivy League university who shares exclusive insights into what was taking place within the halls of the ivory tower as students protested down below.
-- adapted from the Watermelon Pictures press kit. For more, please see the film's website.
