SDF: In-the-Works
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The Southern Documentary Fund’s (SDF) In-the-Works will be faciliated by filmmaker Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground). FBI/KKK, directed by Michael Frierson is an intimate, 77-minute documentary about Dargan Fierson, an FBI agent in Greensboro, North Carolina, 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 attitude and also uncovers the filmmaker’s own complicity in a legacy of familial racism.
Director
Michael Frierson
Festival Year
2008