Two docs at the Indie Short Film Festival

After sold-out screenings at Charlottesville’s Indie Short Film Festival in March, “The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, An American Agitator” will again be screened in Charlottesville on August 9, 7:30pm at Vinegar Hill Theatre. It will be paired with a companion documentary, “Uprooted,” that explores the displacement of a thriving Black neighborhood in Newport News. Today’s podcast features the directors of both films, Brandi Kallam and Ty Cooper and we discuss:

– How they found each other

– The story behind Sala Udin

– Why it was shot in B&W

– The importance of the FBI agent in the doc

– How she found the Johnsons

– Christopher Newport University’s involvement

LINKS

Indie Short Film Festival

My podcast with Annette Banks about “Freedom House Ambulance”

My podcast about Pine Grove School

My podcast with Ty Cooper on “Amanda”