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Thank You, Archie Green
Posted 03/25/09
Appalshop expresses its appreciation for the life and work of Archie Green, who died at 91 on March 22. » »
Robert Salyer returns home for film screening
Posted 03/17/09
Filmmaker Robert Salyer will be returning to Wise County this Friday, (March 20, 5:30 at UVA-Wise) to present his film Sludge, a documentary that examines a major Kentucky coal waste spill and its effects on the environment and community. The spill, similar to the one that recently took place in eastern Tennessee, was 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez and one of the worst environmental disasters ever in the southeastern United States, according to the EPA. » »
Survival and Resistance: Appalshop’s First 40 Years
Posted 02/27/09
Four decades ago, in a Whitesburg, Kentucky storefront that once held a "tire supermarket," Herb E. Smith, a seventeen-year-old member of the Appalachian Film Workshop—Appalshop, for short—learned to work the 16-millimeter Arriflex-S camera. » »
Voices from the Cultural Battlefront
Posted 02/04/09
Appalshop's Dudley Cocke and Art Menius will return Voices from the Cultural Battlefront to the Folk Alliance International Conference in Memphis with a panel discussion "A Call to Action for Cultural Equity" on February 21, 2009. » »
Headwaters Films on KET's Kentucky Channel
Posted 02/03/09
KET has announced a run of Appalshop's Headwaters series in January and February on its KETKY channel, including showings of Stranger with a Camera and The Ralph Stanley Story. » »
TN Sludge Spill and Appalshop's Work
Posted 12/29/08
A Tennessee Valley Authority sludge holding pond in Harriman, Tennessee failed on December 22, flooding hundreds of acres with the liquid form of fly ash, a byproduct of burning coal at the Kingston Fossil Plant. Fly ash contains heavy metals and other toxins; residents of Harriman and other downstream communities are now faced with the fear that their air and water has been contaminated as well as the physical devastation of their land. » »
Screenings at Cityfolk in Dayton, OH on January 27
Posted 01/01/70
Cityfolk is hosting screenings of From Wood To Singing Guitar and Hazel Dickens: It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song on January 27 at the Neon Movies in downtown Dayton. Filmmaker Mimi Pickering will be present to introduce her portrait of Hazel Dickens. » »
Marking the 38th Anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster
Posted 01/01/70
On Feb. 26, 1972, a coal-waste dam at the head of a crowded West Virginia hollow burst. A wall of sludge, debris and water tore through the valley below, leaving in its wake 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. The Pittston Company, owners of the dam, maintained that the disaster was “an act of God.” In response Appalshop filmmaker Mimi Pickering produced "The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man," which powerfully portrays the impact of the disaster. Ten years later she returned to the creek to document the continuing disaster in “Buffalo Creek Revisited.” » »
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