*Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, whose 2005 documentary on Emmett Till helped spark the federal government to reopen the 1955 murder case, has agreed to share any information gathered in future film projects with the FBI, reports the AP.
Beauchamp is currently filming a series of documentaries based on civil rights killings for cable's History Channel as well as TV One. Any new evidence he comes across will be shared with the FBI's Cold Case Unit that focuses on crimes that have gone unpunished from that era.
In turn, the FBI is arranging interviews for Beauchamp with veteran agents who covered the cases and other contacts, said agency spokesman Ernie Porter.
"In the sense that we would go hand-in-hand conducting joint investigations, no. He's not law enforcement," said Porter. "What we are doing is cooperating with him."
Beauchamp said the FBI has shared with him their five priority cases. Since then, he's spent a lot of time in the South, staging re-enactments and interviewing witnesses on film.