IFC Acquires Domestic Rights to Martin Luther King Jr Documentary ‘MLK/FBI’ at TIFF

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Sam Pollard’s new documentary, MLK/FBI, about the U.S. government's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., has been picked up by IFC Films for North America ahead of a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday night.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIFC Films announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to MLK/FBI, directed by Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar® nominee Sam Pollard. MLK/FBI was part of the Official Selection for the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

In a time of dramatic political unrest, film has a unique opportunity to look toward the past for insight on our present. Sam Pollard’s searing documentary MLK/FBI retells the story of the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of the government, showing how FBI founder J.

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In 1963, the FBI began wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. with the aim of “neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader," as an FBI memo put it at the time.