SOUTHERN GOTHIC, directed by Nick Hampson and Stephen Robert Morse is set in the heart of the American South. The documentary feature examines both the 1983 and 2018 investigations into the racially-motivated murder of African-American man Timothy Coggins in Griffin, Georgia. A multi-layered story of one town in two different eras, it highlights how one era enabled this crime to go without punishment and how the other attempts to bring justice decades later. Featuring a 360-degree view of all people involved within the case, SOUTHERN GOTHIC asks audiences to become the juries themselves; questioning their presumptions of guilt, innocence, and authority.
The Atlanta Film Festival will take place between the 17th – 27th of September 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.