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| Official Selection: Friday, April 8th |
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Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise And Fall Of The Spook Who Sat By The Door
Documentary (57 mins.) |
Block: 2 - 2:15 pm |
| Directed by: Christine Acham and Clifford Ward |
| Written by: Christine Acham and Clifford Ward |
| Produced by: Christine Acham and Clifford Ward |
| Cast: Sam Greenlee, Berlie Dixon, David Lemieux, Paul Butler, J.A. Preston, Janet League-Katzin, Michael Kahn, Thomas Penick, Todd Boyd, Ed Guerrerro, Eric Pierson, Harry Schragg, Jack Moore. |
Synopsis: Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door is an independent documentary on the controversial and FBI repressed 1973 black film The Spook Who Sat By the Door. Through interviews, with author Sam Greenlee, Berlie Dixon, widow of director Ivan Dixon, Academy Award winning editor Michael Kahn, Melvin Van Peebles several actors from the film, investors, academics, Todd Boyd, Ed Guerrero, and Eric Pierson archival footage and production documents, Infiltrating Hollywood tells the story of The Spook Who Sat by the Door from its inception as a novel to its release and repression. |
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