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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. The Trailer 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. ꩜ Read More ꩜

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Get to know the students, faculty, staff, and more familiar faces from the film. Meet The Protagonists and Student Film Team Protagonist, Cameraperson Gaby Batista Gaby Batista was the Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, The Catalyst, and stepped up as a protest leader and organizer after the initial news of the takeover broke on January 6, 2023. She majored in anthropology and became a leading voice for the LGBTQ+ community on campus. At The Catalyst, she championed investigations into the Board of Trustees, the erasure of safe spaces on campus, and the unethical practices of President Corcoran. Today, she is on the editorial board of Old School Catalyst , an independent publication founded by three former Catalyst Editors-in-Chief, including Isaac Tellechea and Sophia Brown, and their mentor, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Maria Vesperi. She is also on a multi-city festival tour with First They Came for My College and will attend both True/False and SXSW, among others. After graduating from New College in 2024, Gaby has taken up full-time work in marketing and logistics fields, as well as assisting the production team however she can. In the future, she hopes to have many opportunities to plan events, cultivate community among minorities, and inspire others, much like she did during her time at New College of Florida. Cameraperson, Production Assistant, Student Film Director Calypso Camacho Calypso Camacho is a storyteller who shows more than she tells, in both documentary and fiction. At New College, Calypso studied Film/Russian Language and Literature, subjects she combined in her thesis film, EAT MY LOVE , whose footage is featured in First They Came For My College , and is set to be screened at festivals this spring and released digitally this summer. Calypso’s love for film is one she shared generously with the NCF community. Films such as Another Round (Starring Lindsey Jennings) and Bike-Court-Palm-Girl (Scored by Orion Martins) were both shot on the iconic New College campus. Calypso also founded and organized the [New College] Film Club, which hosted weekly screenings, vibrant discussions, and four end-of-semester NCF Vidfests. In addition, she is an accomplished graphic designer and created this website. President of New College of Florida, 2023-Present Richard Corcoran Richard Corcoran served as the Speaker of the Florida House from 2016 to 2018. In December 2018, DeSantis appointed Corcoran to serve as Florida’s commissioner of education. In January 2023, the new board of New College fired President Patricia Okker and installed Corcoran as its interim president, making him the permanent president in October of 2023, with a salary and benefits package over four times as large as Okker’s. Protagonist Denicia Finney Denicia was valedictorian of her high school and graduated from New College with a degree in philosophy. She was president of the Philosophy Club, served on the Student Allocations Committee, and was Moderator of the New College Forum. She plans to enter graduate school in the fall of 2026. Protagonist Tracy Fero An entrepreneur, community leader, grandmother, and one of the most outspoken parents of a New College student during the period of the takeover. Her child, who is transgender, transferred to Hampshire College, and Tracy continues to be politically active. Protagonist Libby Harrity Libby was the president of the New College Student Senate and led the protests against the hostile takeover. During DeSantis's visit to sign anti-DEI legislation at New College, Libby confronted Board of Trustees member Chris Rufo, who threatened to charge her with a felony. Following national coverage of her case, she was offered a scholarship and transferred to Hampshire College. She is now a law student at Rutgers University. Protagonist, Cameraperson Joshua Janniere Born in Queens, New York, Joshua Janniere is a filmmaker and photographer. While studying at New College of Florida, Josh wrote and directed María (which was included in First They Came For My College ) and Bender . He’s currently working on his thesis film, The Dinner Party , which he wrote, produced, and is set to direct. The film covers the themes of grief and isolation, drawing visual inspiration from Bresson, Antonioni, and Fellini. Protagonist, Associate Producer, Cameraperson Lindsey Bliss Jennings Lindsey Bliss Jennings is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and environmentalist dedicated to living and creating in relationship with the land and community. A Sarasota Florida native and a 2024 graduate of New College of Florida, she works at the intersection of sustainability, storytelling, and community care. In High School she co-created Into The Storm, a feature length documentary about desegregation in 1966-67 within her own high school, Booker High. Booker High was scheduled to be closed and was met with a wave of unique student protest, and community push back- saving the school from destruction. Then she spent two years at Ringling College of Art and Design, deciding to transfer to New College to take advantage of more freedom academically. Lindsey also designs native and edible landscapes, and established a public neighborhood food forest. She also hosts monthly community mindfulness gatherings. Her creative practice in film and visual arts explores socially and ecological narratives, and local histories. Additional Music, Production Assistant Orion Martins Orion Martins is a radical communitarian adventure artist. With a background ranging from jazz improvisation and sitting meditation, Orion explores the territory between intentionality and discovery in his creativity. His baccalaureate thesis, The Language of Collaboration , speaks to the centrality of creative collaboration in his understanding of what it means to share community. Specifically in regard to film composition, Ori basks in reverence for the mysterious resonance that hums in translation between the languages of film and music. Orion’s other collaborations include composing for and acting in EAT MY LOVE , directing Go Gators , organizing NCF Vidfests, hosting open mics and art nights at Casa D’Ouro, and facilitating a daily meditation club. Protagonist Dylan Niner Dylan is an environmental scientist and community steward whose work bridges technology and the natural world and occasionally outer space. Raised by his grandparents and the first in his family to graduate college, Dylan earned his place at New College on academic scholarship. At Hillsborough Community College, his electromagnetic filter design for lunar regolith was incorporated into NASA's Artemis mission. At New College, he studied biochemistry and marine biology, learned to sail on the waters off campus, and went on to become a Sail Captain teaching others what was passed on to him. He served onthe Council of Green Affairs, a student-run environmental organization, and working alongside Professor Gerardo Toro-Farmer in the Heiser Lab, developed a machine learning model to auto-classify macroalgae in Sarasota Bay for his thesis. He also pioneered ground-penetrating radar procedures for New College's archaeology department, contributing to findings at Spanish Point. After graduating, Dylan ran a Florida-native landscaping business before joining Sedivision as an environmental field technician keeping the water flowing and the toilets flushing, one critical infrastructure system at a time. Former President of New College, Ph.D. Patricia Okker Pat Okker has been an American literature professor, dean, university president, and the first woman president of New College of Florida until January 2023, when she was fired without cause by trustees installed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. She assumed leadership of New College only in July 2021, but during her brief tenure, enrollment increased, and “the academic profile of first-time-in-college students improved” by “five significant measures,” in contrast to the tenure of Richard Corcoran, when performance on all five measures worsened. Dr. Okker’s previous academic home was the University of Missouri, where she was a professor of English and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. A powerlifter and marathon runner, she has completed 10 consecutive Boston Marathons. Recently, she launched “a coaching and consulting endeavor to help higher ed leaders build the resilience, collaboration, and creativity to tackle what’s ahead—and the humility, persistence, and vision to work through setbacks and challenges.” Visit patriciaokker.com for more. Protagonist, Ph.D. Amy Reid Amy Reid received her doctorate from Yale and taught at New Collge for three decades as a Professor of French Language and Literature. She also co-founded the Gender Studies program, and as the most vocal faculty member against the takeover, she led protests, criticized the administration in national news stories, and hosted gatherings for students to talk through their struggles. Elected by her colleagues to represent faculty on the Board of Trustees, she clashed often with Richard Corcoran and the newly appointed trustees. Midway through the film, after the Board voted to abolish the Gender Studies program, Amy had to give away the program’s collection of books, some of which later ended up in dumpsters when the college shuttered the student-run Gender and Diversity Center. Amy left New College and is now Program Director of the Freedom to Learn Program at PEN America, where she recently co-authored the report America’s Censored Campuses 2025: Expanding the Web of Control. Protagonist, Cameraperson Chole Rusek Chloe Rusek graduated from New College with a degree in Digital Media Production and Journalism. As a staff reporter for The Catalyst, she pursued an interview with New College Interim President Richard Corcoran and reported on the administration’s silence. Rather than positioning herself at the center of campus controversies, she decided to document what remained of New College’s classic culture, capturing its eccentricities, traditions, and the student spirit that continues to define it. With commencement on the horizon, she marked the end of her college career by starring as Frank-N-Furter in the New College production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With a strong love for makeup and costuming, she gravitates toward bold, expressive looks that inform both her performances and creative work. After graduating, Chloe continued her career as a designer. She worked to translate her background in digital media production and journalism into thoughtful, narrative-driven visual work. Alongside her professional design career, she continues to develop independent projects in film and fine art, steadily building her portfolio and growing her business as an independent artist, filmmaker, and designer. Creatively driven and highly self-directed, she continually expands her perspective through collaboration, new environments, and diverse experiences that shape her evolving body of work. Cameraperson Nickolas Steinig Nickolas is an independent videographer and photographer with a passion for visual storytelling rooted in real people, places, and history. With a background in media production and investigative research, his work blends documentary sensibilities with cinematic technique, emphasizing authenticity, narrative structure, and attention to detail. Drawing on strong interviewing and field-production experience, he seeks to craft stories that are visually compelling and grounded in context. Nickolas is particularly interested in historically informed storytelling and documentary-style work that preserves a sense of place and gives depth to overlooked narratives. Protagonist, Production Assistant Isaac Tellechea Since graduating from New College with a degree in Humanities and Creative Writing, Isaac has worked closely with Maria Vesperi and fellow Catalyst alums to build Old School Catalyst into a non-profit dedicated to providing student journalists across the country with an education and an outlet free of censorship. Now based in Brooklyn, Isaac has broken into the world of professional journalism as a CNN News Associate, where he’s learning the foundations of digital and broadcast reporting. In his free time, Isaac pursues creative endeavors, working on original short fiction and poetry with the goal of publication. Protagonist, Ph.D. Maria D. Vesperi Maria D. Vesperi, Ph. D., holds a doctorate in anthropology from Princeton University. A former reporter, columnist, and editorial writer at the Tampa Bay Times, she came to New College from the Times Washington Bureau in 1993. She taught Newspaper Writing and Production and College Newspaper Editing in addition to anthropology, with the award-winning Catalyst weekly newspaper as her student-run class project. The Catalyst, archived online at ncfcatalyst.com, offered hands-on experience for students, many of whom went on to careers in journalism. Her lessons in news judgment and balanced reporting were crucible-tested when the staff stepped up to cover all aspects of the campus takeover in an atmosphere of mounting uncertainty and fear. As friends and teachers departed and painful new realities took hold, they continued to pursue challenging investigative leads and meet deadlines, demonstrating courage and tenacity. Maria, who is also executive coordinating editor of projects at the journal Anthropology Now, retired from New College as Professor Emerita in Fall 2024. Since then, she has worked with alums and former Catalyst editors to found the Old School Catalyst Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to student journalism education and publishing. Its newsmagazine, oldschoolcatalyst.com, provides a virtual newsroom where aspiring reporters can flourish free of censorship.

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See who participated in filming for First They Came for My College. Meet The Filmmakers Director and Director of Photography Patrick Bresnan Using precise, illustrative cinematic images, Patrick Bresnan 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 20 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 2019 Sundance Film Festival. His subsequent feature, Naked Gardens , premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and internationally at IDFA. He was a cinematographer on the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Boys State. Editor Ivete Lucas Ivete was born in Brazil, grew up in Mexico, and lives and works in the American South. Her films have premiered at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Toronto, and Sundance. Her work has earned over thirty film festival awards, including the Short Film Award at the Cannes Director's Fortnight for Skip Day (2018), the Pardino d'Oro at Locarno for The Passing (2023) and a Cinema Eye Award for The Rabbit Hunt (2017). Her collection of short films has been distributed by ARTE, The New Yorker, The Atlantic , and The Guardian . Her first feature film, Pahokee (2019), about a small town in the Florida Everglades, premiered at Sundance and played over fifty festivals worldwide. It was distributed theatrically in France and the US and broadcast on PBS. New College Alum, Producer, Camera Operator Harry William Hanbury Harry William 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 M.A. from Hunter College and taught world and U.S. history at Hunter College High School and King School. New College Alum Cinematographer Daniel Potthast Daniel is a technical artist and videographer working across cinematography, archival research, and field production. He served as an embedded collaborator on the film, documenting campus life over an extended period and contributing to its vérité visual approach through long-form observational filming and on-the-ground production support. His prior work includes visual effects contributions to No Real Than You Are and live video performance collaborations with musicians King Britt and Tim Motzer for the Sister Gertrude Morgan Project. This film marks his first feature documentary. Executive Producer Steve Phillips Steve Phillips is a national political leader, bestselling author, and columnist. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority , the national bestseller How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good, and the new book Are White Men Smarter Than Everyone Else? He hosts the podcast Democracy in Color. Co-producer Monique Walton Monique is an independent producer. She is the 2024 recipient of the Film Independent Spirit Awards Producers Award. Walton’s films include Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar), which premiered at TIFF in 2023, and Bull (dir. Annie Silverstein), which premiered at Cannes – Un Certain Regard in 2019. She produced the feature documentary Hollow Tree (dir. Kira Akerman), which premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival. Walton was a 2016 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, a 2020 Rotterdam Producing Fellow, and a 2021 Cannes-Producers Network Fellow. Editor Leah Marino Leah Marino is an Austin-based documentary editor with over 25 years of experience shaping award-winning films. Her recent work includes Patrick Bresnan’s First They Came for My College (True/False, SXSW 2026). She is a frequent collaborator with Kim Hopkins, editing Still Pushing Pineapples (Sheffield Doc/Fest opening night 2025), A Bunch of Amateurs (Sheffield Audience Award winner; BAFTA long-list), and Voices of the Sea (True/False; POV; Best Documentary, NYLFF). She edited five films with Ramona Diaz, including A Thousand Cuts (Emmy Award; Peabody Award; Gotham Award), Motherland ( Sundance Commanding Vision Award; Independent Spirit Award nomination), Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, The Learning , and Imelda. Additional credits include Deborah Esquenazi’s Southwest of Salem (Peabody Award; Emmy nomination), John Fiege’s Above All Else (SXSW, Best North American Documentary, Global Visions Film Festival), and Ray Santisteban’s The First Rainbow Coalition (Independent Lens). She was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2019. New College Alum, Producer Holly Herrick Holly Herrick is a seasoned executive in the film non-profit sector, and currently serves Head of Film & Creative Media at Austin Film Society where she has overseen more than $2M in grant funds to filmmakers, established successful talent development programs that have launched major film careers, and helped launch the AFS Cinema, Austin’s only non-profit arthouse. Herrick’s background is in film programming and artist support, and she has served in producing roles on independent features that have premiered at Sundance, Rotterdam, and SXSW. Producer Zackary Drucker Zackary Drucker is an Emmy-nominated director for the HBO Original documentary The Stroll (2023) and an Emmy-nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me (2015). She was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent (2014 - 2019), and produced the feature film Biosphere with Mark Duplass & Sterling K. Brown (Duplass Brothers Productions / IFC, 2022). The Lady and The Dale , her 4-part series and directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in 2021 and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2022. In addition to being nominated for Best Documentary at the News + Docs Emmy Awards, The Stroll won a Peabody Award in 2024 and a Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision at Sundance 2023. Her standalone directorial feature Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl was released on Hulu in May 2023. Her latest documentary feature, Enigma , debuted at Sundance 2025. Executive Producer Kim A. Snyder Kim A. Snyder's latest film, The Librarians (2025 film), is now out in theaters, has garnered over 20 festival awards, and had its US TV broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens in February 2026. Her short documentary Death by Numbers was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award. She made her directorial debut with the 2000 documentary I Remember Me . In 2016, Snyder won the Crested Butte Film Festival ACTNow award for Newtown and was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Executive Producer Margaret Brown Margaret Brown’s documentary work examines the American South, from her seminal film on Townes Van Zandt Be Here to Love Me , to the story of the BP oil spill’s lasting impact T he Great Invisible , which won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW in 2014. Her film The Order of Myths , which examined Brown’s native Mobile, Alabama and its still segregated Mardi Gras celebration, won numerous awards including a Peabody and the Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award. Her most recent film Descendant won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at Sundance in 2022 and was acquired by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions. Descendant also won the DOC NYC Award for Best Director, the Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Historical Documentary, and was named to the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary Feature. The film also received nominations for outstanding direction, best documentary feature, and outstanding original score from Cinema Eye Honors, the Producers’ Guild of America, and the NAACP Awards. It explores the story of the only known slave ship that’s ever been discovered on North American soil, the specter of its crimes both past and present, and the steadfast resilience of Africatown’s descendants in the face of a century of denied history. Brown has also done short form work for The New York Times, Field of Vision , and episodic work for Netflix , including an episode of the acclaimed series Dirty Money. Executive Producer Heather Courtney Heather is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and a Guggenheim, Sundance, and Fulbright fellow. Her documentary films have won an Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award, an IDA Award, and numerous festival jury awards, including at SXSW, Full Frame, the Philadelphia Film Fest, and the Traverse City Film Festival. She has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, Ford Foundation Just Films, ITVS, Impact Partners, Chicken & Egg, the Sundance Edit and Story Lab, and the United States Artists Fellowship, among others.

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What First They Came for My College is all about, our mission, and the people who fought for educational freedom. The Film LOGLINE 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. SYNOPSIS FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE tells the inside story of the right-wing campaign to “reconquer” higher education in America. New College of Florida was the first public college to be transformed by a political coup—a blueprint for our new era of unprecedented censorship and political interference in academia. By embedding with the student newspaper, an outspoken professor, and students from all sides of the political spectrum, this verité feature reveals a microcosm of America's culture wars, and serves as an essential document for students today grappling with their moment in history. Through the eyes of students, the documentary opens with the shocking “hostile takeover” of New College, which begins on January 6, 2023, in the run-up to Ron DeSantis's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis appoints six ultraconservatives to the school’s Board of Trustees, including Christopher Rufo, the right-wing activist behind attacks on Critical Race Theory, and Matthew Spalding, who would go on to play a leading role in Project 2025. But conquering a school is not the same as running it. The college community mounts a fierce resistance, exposing what they see as the new administration’s cruelty, incompetence, and corruption. Meanwhile, the administration enacts policies meant to transform the culture and the campus, and the college begins to change before our eyes. As the tension mounts, students and faculty battle to preserve the school’s unique character and the integrity of the academic program — all the while warning the rest of the nation, “Your school is next.” At a raucous performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show , students sing “Don’t dream it, be it,” but we fear they are doing the Time Warp on the deck of the Titanic. New College has withstood hurricanes, but none like the culture warriors now seeking to take over higher education.

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