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Filmmakers Launch Ferguson Documentary

Using Indiegogo campaign to raise money.

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), actor Nate Parker and writer-director Matthew Cooke are teaming up to make a documentary about what they're calling "the black male crisis," focusing on the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the deaths over the past few years of other unarmed black men, including Trayvon Martin, Ramarley Graham and Eric Garner. The filmmakers set up an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for the project a day after a grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson in Brown's death. The project, which will continue to be funded through January 5, had raised $3,115 of its $25,000 goal as of Thursday afternoon.