Directors/Producers: Patrick Bresnan, Harry Hanbury

Description:

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stages a coup at New College, the state’s beloved public honors college, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in an unprecedented nationwide assault on academic freedom and diversity.

Biography:

Patrick Bresnan, using precise, illustrative cinematic images, makes vérité stories that counter the mythic concepts of America. He directed The Rabbit Hunt, which premiered in the US at Sundance and in Europe at the Berlinale. The film won over twenty awards, including the Cinema Eye Honor. He co-directed the short Skip Day, which won the Grand Jury Prize at The Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. He co-directed, shot and produced the feature film Pahokee, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. His subsequent feature, Naked Gardens, premiered at Tribeca and internationally at IDFA. He was a cinematographer on the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Boys State.

Harry Hanbury is a writer and filmmaker who was on the founding team of producers of two investigative journalism nonprofits: the American News Project and Retro Report, a partnership with the New York Times. He has also produced for Discovery, six Hollywood studios and dozens of nonprofits. He has an MA from Hunter College and taught world and US history at Hunter College High School and King School.

Contact Information:

e: newcollegefilm@gmail.com  
w: www.newcollegefilm.com