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Degrees of Change
(DOCUMENTARY - 37 minutes, 40 seconds)
Sarah Cox

Most American colleges say they produce engaged citizens, but many students seem uninterested in today’s pivotal issues and in acting to create change in their communities. This film explores the role that universities play in encouraging activism, and questions the possible causes of student apathy at a time with such possibility for change.

Follow one group of students making dramatic demands for environmental policy change on their North Carolina campus. As the pressure mounts, they face doubtful administrators and indifferent students, and the group’s passionate leader struggles to convince her peers of the power they have in an age when student activism is often invisible.

Filmmaker Profile: SARAH COX

Sarah Cox graduates from Elon University's undergraduate creative writing program in May 2008, and hails from Winter Springs, Florida. Degrees of Change is her first project as director and cinematographer. Previously she co-wrote Left Ahead, a documentary about progressive Christianity. Her interests beyond film include poetry and cross-genre writing, contemporary art, and the ever-pertinent questions of ecological living. In January of 2008 she traveled to Chiapas, Mexico to work with the Zapatista community and to direct photography for a documentary about the Zapatistas' struggle for autonomous education.