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The Atlanta Film Society is a membership-based 501(c)(3) arts non-profit with a mission to lead the community, both locally and worldwide, in creative and cultural discovery through the moving image. The Atlanta Film Society also presents the Academy Awardยฎ qualifying Atlanta Film Festival each spring.
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Before โBlack Panther,โ before โDo the Right Thing,โ there was โThe Spook Who Sat by the Door.โ The 1973 film, directed by Ivan Dixon from a screenplay and novel by Sam Greenlee, imagined a Black CIA operative turned guerrilla revolutionary. Its boldness led to suppression, cult status โ and now, rebirth.