Francesca Karle made state and national news with “On the River’s Edge,” her Girl Scout project - a film about the homeless in Huntington. The film won awards all over the place, she was profiled on CBS News and many other places, and won a national Girl Scout award. Now in her second year at Marshall University, she will be premiering her second film , “Back to the Bottle, ” on April 17th as the opening film for the Fifth Appalachian Film Festival.

To see some great photos from the making of the film, visit this site. Hopefully I will be able to preview and review the film. The world premiere event will be a fund-raiser, as was the world premiere of “On the River’s Edge.” Thanks to her parents Ms. Karle has had a full-team to help her not only make but market her films, and they have done a great job - by making a few phone calls, etc.

“On the River’s Edge” lead me to write a state article on the relationship between libraries and the homeless. I also published a list of new films on the homeless in Counterpoise magazine, screened the film at the WV Library Association state conference, and a lot more.

Hopefully Ms. Karle will join WV women filmmakers like B.J. Gudmundsson and Terry Lively and national women filmmakers like Mimi Pickering, Ann Lewis and Barbara Kopple as another activist who uses their camera to not only show human misery but do something about it.

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