Gerald Milnes is the reigning WV Filmmaker of the Year, receiving the honor last October in Sutton. During the last year he has released another film called “Icy Mountain” that documents the “quirky fiddling of Leland Hall.”
Todd Gambill and David Marcum have produced a new documentary about one of the most important roads ever built in WV - the WV Turnpike. Using lots of historical footage plus contempary images, they have presented the history of the Turnpike, celebrating its 50th anniversary. To get a copy, contact Todd at 558-9231 and David at 558-9229.
“Mountain Mourning” will be shown on Saturday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m.at the Fall Gathering of the Mid-Ohio Valley Friends. Camp Hervida, Waterford, Ohio
Here’s the LINK for the gathering
Ansted Historical Preservation Council will sponsor a free movie at 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, at the VFW on Main Street . The council will show “Mountain Mourning,” a documentary about the impact of mountaintop removal mining. The VFW is located near Blue Smoke Salsa on Main Street and U.S. 60. Public meeting begins at 6:30 followed by films.Friday, Aug 31 - 6:00 p.m. - Public Hearing scheduled by DEP at Hawks
Nest State Park conference room on the NPDES permit “only.”BJ will be in Ansted for the films and hopes to make it to the hearing.
B.J. Gudmundsson is working on “Rise Up West Virginia!”,a new film about the effects of mountaintop removal mining and has created a blog for the film. You can learn more about the film at this website - http://www.patchworkfilms.com/wvhills.htm.
You can read her blog here - http://www.riseupwestvirginia.blogspot.com/.
Ralph Coon came to WV in 1994, working on a feature documentary about WV’s most famous UFO expert, Gray Barker. For a year I helped him as much as I could and then I programmed the world premiere at the Spring WV International Film Festival in
Charleston. Michael Lipton put the film on the cover of Graffiti magazine - the ONLY film ever to grace its cover under the control of Mr. Lipton. I have told a thousand people about the film….and now Bob Wilkinson, one of WVPBS’s best young filmmakers, is making a new, updated film about our own world-famous legend. He will present clips on Saturday, September 8th, at 7 PM at The South Charleston Museum. More below…. (more…)
Friends of the Appalachian Mountains,
The cicadas are singing, the compost pile is putting out lots of volunteer squash and gourds, and the ironweed is almost nine feet tall with bright purple blossoms, so I guess that summer is starting to wind down. In September I’m going out on the road again with the Mountaintop Removal Road Show, and I’d love to come and speak to your college,community or church group this fall.
If you would like to book the Mountaintop Removal Road Show, please email me back and we will make all the arrangements. I’m a full time unpaid volunteer fighting this horrible coal mining practice - there is no charge for the presentation, but donations for gas and travel expenses are gratefully accepted. I have a few speaking gigs lined up already - you can check my current speaking schedule on my website:
Penny Loeb wrote the first breakthrough national news article on the effects of mountaintop removal mining for U.S. News and World Report. She also worked with Bob Gates on his two films on MTR - “All Shaken Up” and “Mucked.” Now you can read her book about her journey as she investigated the world of mountaintop removal mining, “Moving Mountains.”
Ted Elden is a world renowned architect/photographer/counter philosopher. For several years now he has been showing alt films at his home overlooking the Kanawha River in Charleston, often on Sundays PM and Thursday nights. If you have any interest in alt theories about landing on the moon, federal taxes, or anything, you may want to contact him…..
Bill Moyers produced one of the best network stories about the effects of mountaintop removal mining several years ago for his weekly PBS newshow - finally canceled by the Bush Regime. Recently one of his assistants contacted me about obtaining a copy of “Mountain Mourning”, the first film by B.J. Gudmundsson and Allen Johnson for Christians for the Mountains.
Francesca Karle made local, state, and national news as a result of her Girl Scout film project about the homeless in Huntington called “On the River’s Edge.” She received a complete scholarship to Marshall, and has begun her next film project. The WV Film Office sent out the announsement below. If you are interested in the project, contact Mrs. Karle, telephone number listed below.
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