Director: Justin Folk
Undercover comedy meets documentary provocation in "Am I Racist?" (2024), a 100-minute American film that sends its host into the world of diversity, equity and inclusion trainings armed with a hidden camera and a straight face.
What is Am I Racist? about?
Posing as an eager student of anti-racism work, the film's host enrolls in workshops, interviews consultants, and sits through corporate-style trainings, recording the sessions as they unfold. Rather than build a plot around characters, the film strings together a sequence of real encounters, letting the reactions of trainers and participants carry the story. Along the way, well-known commentators and educators appear on camera, sometimes aware of the cameras and sometimes not, giving the film its central tension between what is said in these sessions and how it plays back to an audience. The structure borrows from prank-documentary traditions, building toward a staged finale that pulls several threads together.
Cast & crew
Matt Walsh carries the film as its on-screen investigator, while Robin DiAngelo, Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, Regan Byrd and Phil McGraw appear across the workshop and interview segments that make up the bulk of the runtime.
Context & significance
Directed by Justin Folk, the film arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of undercover-style documentaries built around a single provocateur figure. It sits in the comedy-documentary space rather than straight nonfiction, and its structure of staged encounters and hidden cameras has been discussed and disputed in equal measure since release. The film's release also touched off wider conversation about the ethics of secretly filming workshop participants and paid consultants, a debate that followed the film through its festival and theatrical run. Viewers on K-Time can judge the approach and the reactions of its subjects for themselves, without needing prior familiarity with the commentators involved.
Where & how to watch
"Am I Racist?" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built for Farsi-speaking audiences. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to watch; the film's page here can be read without signing in.