2008 Films

The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is proud to present In-the-Works at Full Frame this year. This program provides audiences with a unique opportunity to screen documentaries in different stages of production and to participate in the critique process. It also gives North Carolina filmmakers the opportunity to receive feedback from a dedicated assembly of their peers and serious documentary enthusiasts.

This year, In-the-Works will be facilitated by filmmaker Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground).

• FBI/KKK

  Directed by Michael Frierson

  FBI/KKK is an intimate, 77 minute documentary about Dargan Frierson, an FBI agent in Greensboro, NC, and his dealings with George Franklin Dorsett, the Grand Kludd, or chaplain, of the United Klans of America. In the 1960s, Dorsett became one of the highest-ranking paid informants who secretly provided information about Klan activities under the FBI’s COINTELPRO-White Hate program. Directed by Frierson’s son Michael, the film explores how Frierson’s career in the FBI during the turbulent

  1960s forced him to come to grips with his racist attitudes and also uncovers the filmmaker’s own complicity in a legacy of familial racism.

Celebrating its sixth anniversary, The Southern Documentary Fund is a collective of North Carolina-based media artists dedicated to the production of documentary films in or about the American South. In the past six years, over fifty projects have received fiscal sponsorship through SDF.