With a Cause neglects is Garvy's own story. She was the co-founder of the SDS chapter at Harvard. Garvy is a former teacher and self-taught filmmaker who used to work with Dan Bessie, the Santa Cruz film director who made the feature film Hard Travellin' . Most of Rebels With a Cause consists of interviews with SDS members looking back. I wanted to make a film about something that wasn't documented.
People assume that there's tons of stuff lying around.
I would have assumed that the first march on Washington would have been covered marginally. I had a camera at least from '65 on, but I only have two rolls of pictures from the 1960s. We had the sense that what we were doing was important, but we had no sense that it was historical stuff that ought to be documented. I threw everything out except for my passport, in case I had to leave the country. My SDS card and everything else just disappeared.