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`A Time To Stir' Film Wins 2020 De Antonio Award

Historical documentary about 1968 student protests on Upper West Side wins 2020 award named after filmmaker Emile de Antonio.

Bob Feldman, Community Contributor
Students and community protest against Columbia's planned Morningside Park gym project
Students and community protest against Columbia's planned Morningside Park gym project (cu daily spectator)

Protest Folk Magazine recently announced that the winner of its Emile de Antonio Award for the Best Documentary Feature Film released in 2020 is filmmaker Paul Cronin's A Time To Stir historical documentary, about the student protests on the Upper West Side at Columbia University in April and May of 1968.

The Emile de Antonio Award was created in 2020 to honor 21st-century filmmakers whose documentary films reflect the Emile de Antonio tradition in U.S. filmmaking history. Among the documentary films produced by De Antonio in the 20th-century were films like Point Of Order!, In The Year Of The Pig and Millhouse.

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