Dr. Tony Gaskew, professor of criminal justice at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, is interviewed as part of a documentary film about civil rights activist Sala Udin making its Pittsburgh premiere at the Indie Short Film Festival Saturday.

After sold-out screenings at the Indie Short Film Festival in Charlottesville, Va., the documentary, “The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, An American Agitator,” is coming to Udin’s hometown.

The film will be shown at 6 p.m. in the Elsie H. Hillman Auditorium of the Kaufmann Center in Pittsburgh. The film will be followed by a live panel discussion with the filmmakers and Udin. Tickets are available in advance through Eventbrite.com.

Produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Annette Banks and award-winning producer Ty Cooper, “The Price of Resistance” traces the life of Udin, a revered civil rights activist, community leader and former Pittsburgh City Councilman. The film captures Udin’s powerful story through rare archival footage, personal reflections and a compelling interview with a former FBI agent who was active in Mississippi during the civil rights era. His account provides vital context to the government’s surveillance efforts of civil rights and other protest leaders during a volatile period in American history – a program called COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program).

Last summer, filmmakers came to Pitt-Bradford to interview Gaskew, who created the FBICOINTELPRO Pittsburgh Collection, a special digital archive of the FBI’s counterintelligence operations targeting the 1960s Black Power Movement in Pittsburgh.

Gaskew interviewed Udin twice in recorded interviews in 2020 and 2021 and reviewed 4,000 pages of FBI memoranda about Udin obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. That research resulted in a 2022 article, “Where Have all the Black Revolutionaries Gone in Steel City? An Interview with Sala Udin,” published in Kalfou, A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies.