CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Not man know the story of Sala Udin, a self-described “agitator” during the Civil Rights Movement. Ty Cooper, filmmaker and director of the Indie Short Film Festival in Charlottesville, hopes his short film will help change that.
On Saturday August 9 Vinegar Hill Theater will host a screening of “The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, An American Agitator,” a documentary short film that details the actions of Udin during the Civil Rights Movement and how he became a target of FBI surveillance in 1960s Mississippi.
“Sala was extremely brave. He was very courageous. He was a person who got bit by the bug when he was in DC to, you know, see the March on Washington,” Cooper explained in an interview on Cville Right Now Live…