Headwaters Television Episodes

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Episode #201: A Place in the Country

A stunning video… Remarkable both in style and substance.
-- Rob Fossi, Senior Director, National Housing and Community Development, Fannie Mae Foundation

Synopsis

Documents the diversity of rural America, the complexity and depth of the challenges facing it, and the hard and effective work rural community developers are doing to meet the challenges and provide opportunities.

Full Description

Fifty-six million people – roughly 20% of the population -- live in rural America. If rural America was a country, it would rank just behind Great Britain in size. Yet many Americans don’t understand the realities of life in the country. Despite declining poverty in much of the nation, 244 of the 250 poorest counties are rural, and rural poverty rates have exceeded those of metropolitan areas for decades. Hosted by Ray Suarez from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, A Place in the Country documents the diversity of rural America, the complexity and depth of the challenges facing it, and the hard and effective work that rural community developers are doing to meet these challenges and provide opportunities. The program focuses on the variety of approaches undertaken by Coachella Valley Housing Coalition (CA), Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (ME), Neighborhood Housing Services of Dimmit County (TX), Northeast South Dakota Community Action Program, Quitman County Development Organization (MS), Southern Mutual Help Association (LA), and Stop Abusive Family Environments (WV). U.S. Senators Kit Bond and Tom Daschle, U.S Representatives Jo Ann Emerson (R/MO) and Eva Clayton (D/NC), and former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin comment on the importance of sustaining rural communities.

A co-production of Appalshop with the Center for Rural Strategies and Rural LISC. Funding provided by Bank of America, Fannie Mae Foundation, FHLBanks, National City Bank, State Farm Bank, Wahington Mutual, Wachovia Foundation, and Fleet.

Producer: Dee Davis
From Hazard, KY, Dee was an early Appalshop student filmmaker, served as President of Appalshop in the late 70s, and as the Executive Producer of Appalshop’s film and television division from 1982 until 2001. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) from 1992-97. He produced and co-directed A Place in the Country with Joel Cohen. He is currently President of the Center for Rural Strategies in Whitesburg.

Screening Highlights

Council on Foundations Film & Video Festival
Stand Up For Rural America Day, Ronald Reagan International Trade Center

Resources:

Stand Up for Rural America (www.ruralamerica.org) includes many resources on rural issues and a companion publication to this program, also titled “A Place in the Country” (click on “A Place in the Country” for pdf )

The Center for Rural Strategies (www.ruralstrategies.org), co-producers of “A Place in the Country,” has information on the people and organizations featured in the program (www.ruralstrategies.org/projects/place.html).

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Coachella Valley Housing Coalition helped Julie Bond build a new house	Mary Dore and daughter in front of their affordable new home developed by Southern Mutual Help Association in New Iberia, LA	A manufacturing plant financed by Coastal Enterprises in Maine	Coastal Enterprises developed business plans for Spindleworks, an arts center for the mentally disabled
Students in a ‘right-to-read” center operated by Quitman County Development Organization in Marks, Mississippi	Main Lobsterman Proctor Wells

Episode #202: Ralph Stanley’s Story

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“Featuring fabulous performances, Smith takes us on a delightful, old-time music journey.”
– Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum

The documentary succeeds admirably… It captures the quiet conviction and uncompromising integrity that enabled this American musician to become one of the folk masters of our time.”
– Bill C. Malone, author, Country Music, USA

If you love the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, see the story of the man whose spare, ardent music served as its template.”
-- Minneapolis City Pages

Synopsis

Ralph Stanley’s Story is a portrait of this Grammy award–winning bluegrass great and current star of the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack, the program explores Stanley’s musical roots in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia.

Full Description

Ralph Stanley’s Story is a portrait of the Grammy award-winning bluegrass great and star of the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack. For over 50 years, Ralph Stanley’s “clawhammer” style banjo playing, haunting tenor voice and tradition-inspired repertoire have epitomized old time bluegrass music. This documentary explores Stanley’s musical roots in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia, the early days of The Stanley Brothers, and Ralph’s decision to continue on after the untimely death of brother Carter. Interviews with Ralph, former band members, and fellow musicians like Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam are intercut with live performances of such songs as "Rank Stranger," "Pretty Polly," and "Man of Constant Sorrow." Ralph also performs with Larry Sparks and Ricky Skaggs at his annual “Hills of Home Bluegrass Festival.”

Funding provided by KET Fund for Independent Production, National Endowment for the Arts, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Kentucky Arts Council, Fund for Folk Culture.

Producer: Herb E. Smith A Whitesburg native, Herb was one of the original trainees in the Community Film Workshop of Appalachia (Appalshop’s genesis), and has been with Appalshop since its inception. He completed Ralph Stanley’s Story in 2000. Other award-winning films include Beyond Measure: Appalachian Culture and Economy, Unbroken Tradition: Jerry Brown Pottery, Strangers and Kin, and Hand Carved.

Screening Highlights

Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago
Barbican Art Center, London, England
Experience Music Project, Seattle
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum
Ozark Foothills Film Festival

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Bluegrass master Ralph Stanley with filmmaker Herb Smith

Episode #203: Shelter

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This film probes an enormously critical topic…
-Lucius Ellsworth, President, Appalachian School of Law

“I think it was an eye-opening video that everyone should see.” – Male student, University of Utah

Synopsis

Shelter tells the story of five rural women, victims of domestic violence, who try to find freedom, justice and safety for themselves and their children.

Full Description

In 1974, three women opened the first shelter for battered women, in St. Paul, Minnesota. From this courageous act emerged a grassroots movement that has not only saved lives, it has changed the way Americans think about domestic violence. By 1985, a mere decade later, there were 700 shelters and safe houses, growing to approximately 1,200 today. Shelter traces this remarkable evolution and gives voice to five women seeking protection in a rural West Virginia shelter. Working with advice and guidance from the shelter’s counselors and staff, the women struggle to find safety, freedom, and justice for themselves and their children. Two founders of the shelter movement discuss its history while Tillie Black Bear from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota describes establishing the first shelter for women of color. Shelter challenges our national ambivalence towards issues of domestic violence and common institutional responses from police, the court system, and social service agencies, while highlighting a model program that offers a holistic and healing approach to the problem.

A co-production of Appalshop with West Virginia Public Television in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding from the KET Fund For Independent Production, Kentucky Arts Council, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media/Funding Exchange, Commission on Religion in Appalachia, Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Visit www.familyrefugecenter.com to find resources on domestic violence and to learn more about the Family Refuge Center featured in this program.

Producer: Anne Lewis
Director of Appalshop’s Headwaters Television project since 1982, Anne Lewis has also produced many of the programs in the first and second series. A recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, Anne’s 1989 documentary On Our Own Land received the duPont-Columbia Award for Independent Broadcast Journalism. Prior to joining Appalshop, Anne was Associate Director of Harlan County, U.S.A.

Screening Highlights

New Jersey International Film Festival
Philadelphia International Film Festival
West Virginia Filmmakers’ Festival
Appalachian Studies Conference

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Advocate reads to a child at the Lewisburg, WV Family Refuge Center

After a stay at the Family Refuge Center, Kathleen and her children now live on their own

Episode #204: His Eye is on the Sparrow & Girls’ Hoops

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His Eye is on the Sparrow

“Tells a story of resistance, a belief in freedom, and the importance of culture and religion in shaping community life.”
--John David, Southern Appalachian Labor School

Synopsis

His Eye is On the Sparrow is a portrait of Ethel Caffie Austin, a powerful African American singer known as West Virginia’s “First Lady of Gospel.”

Full Description

Ethel Caffie-Austin, a daughter of the coalfields, is West Virginia’s “First Lady of Gospel Music.” This program features Ethel performing a range of spirituals, hymns and contemporary gospel numbers that represent the rich cultural heritage of African American song and worship. Ethel’s enthusiasm and belief in the redemptive power of faith are evident as she is seen teaching gospel to a youth group, ministering to inmates at a state prison, and leading the choir at the Black Sacred Music Festival in Institute, WV. Oral history, archival material, and interviews are combined with performance footage to tell a powerful story of personal freedom and triumph through faith, wisdom, and the support of a caring community.

Funding provided by the KET Fund for Independent Production, West Virginia Humanities Council, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Commission on Religion in Appalachia.

Screening Highlights

West Virginia International Film Festival
Workers’ Cultural Festival, Beard’s Fork, WV

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Filmmakers Anne Lewis and Laura Royster with Ethel Caffie Austin

Ethel Caffie Austin in concert

Girls’ Hoops

“A brilliant film that fully captures what women’s basketball has meant and continues to mean to women athletes everywhere.”
--Dr. Lynda Ransdell, University of Kentucky

“Like the game itself, Girls’ Hoops is fast paced and replete with human drama.”
-- M Magazine

Synopsis

Girls Hoops profiles several recent teams while exploring the history of girls’ high school basketball in Kentucky starting in the 1920s.

Full Description

Of special interest amidst the debate over the value of Title IX support for women’s athletics, Girls' Hoops explores the history of girls’ high school basketball in Kentucky -- from its first heyday in the 1920s, followed by a 42-year ban on statewide competition, to its rebirth in the 1970s and development into the fiercely competitive, popular sport it has become today. Filmed over the course of a basketball season, the program features exhausting practices, intense games, rousing half-time talks, championship performances and enthusiastic fans from small coal mining communities where a winning girls team is the talk of the town. Girls’ Hoops includes up-close interviews with today’s players and coaches, comments from a 94-year old player from a 1920s championship team, and interviews and game footage of the woman who broke the gender barrier in the mid-‘70s.

A co-production of Appalshop with WKYU/Bowling Green in association with NETA and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding from the KET Fund for Independent Production, Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Humanities Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Producer: Justine Richardson
Justine represents a second generation of Appalshop filmmakers, joining the staff in 1994. After training on a number of productions, she directed her first documentary, Girls’ Hoops, completing it in 1998 with assistance from Stephanie Whetstone.

Screening Highlights

WorldFest, Houston International Film Festival – Silver Award
American Sociological Association
Big Muddy Film Festival
Louisville Film & Video Festival - Juror Award
Nashville Independent Film Festival
Athens International Film & Video Festival

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A championship game

Filming Margaret Boggs, a member of a 1930s-era state champion team

Episode #205: Rough Side of the Mountain

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“It’s lessons are universal and should be seen by everyone concerned with community renewal and social justice.”
– Professor Hywel Francis, Adult Continuing Education, University of Wales, Swansea

“Sure to provoke heated discussion of the possibilities and limits of citizen efforts to rebuild their communities.”
-- Dr. Stephen Fisher, Political Science, Emory & Henry College

Synopsis

Rough Side of the Mountain documents the “steel ceiling” encountered by many poor rural communities as they struggle to develop new economies in hard hit areas.

Full Description

Over the past twenty years, manufacturing plants and mining companies have closed throughout rural America, often leaving behind communities with crumbling infrastructures, widespread unemployment, and inexperience in self-governance. Such was the case in two hard hit southwest Virginia towns – Trammel and Ivanhoe. In 1986 Trammel attracted national attention as the “privately owned” town whose 50 homes, company store, post office, and water and cable systems were put on the action block. Rough Side of the Mountain follows the story as local residents, mostly unemployed and disabled, organized with the help of churches and foundations to purchase the auctioned homes and “save” their town. In Ivanhoe, the program profiles the efforts of the Ivanhoe Civic League as community members attempt to rebuild after the loss of two major industries, the school, and local businesses. Rough Side of the Mountain looks at grassroots community organizing and the “steel ceiling” encountered by many poor rural communities as they struggle to develop new economies in an increasingly global system.

Funding provided by the KET Fund for Independent Production, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Appalachian Community Fund, Commission on Religion in Appalachia, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Glenmary Research Center, Highlander Research and Education Center, Kentucky Arts Council, The Ford Foundation.

Screening Highlights

Athens International Film & Video Festival
Black Maria Film & Video Festival - Director’s Citations Award
Big Muddy Film Festival
Council On Foundations Film & Video Festival
Louisville Film & Video Festival
Science Books & Films Science Film Festival

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Auctioning off the town of Trammel

Anxious residents watch as their town in auctioned off

Director Anne Lewis and cameraman Andrew Garrison interview Trammel residents

Episode #206: To Save the Land and People

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“A wonderfully human and good humored presentation of a major tragedy. A downright truth-telling of a defeat without despair.”
– George Stoney, filmmaker and professor, New York University

“Extraordinarily powerful… deserving of national and international recognition.”
-- Herbert Reid, Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky

Synopsis

To Save the Land and People is a history of the early grassroots efforts to stop strip mining in eastern Kentucky, the program makes a powerful statement about the land and how we use it, and how its misuse conflicts with local culture and values.

Full Description

Strip or “surface” mining – where coal is blasted and scrapped from the mountain surface – increased dramatically in the Appalachian region in 1961 when the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) signed contracts to buy over 16 million tons of strip mined coal. Though cheaper for the buyer than deep mined coal, the damage done by strip mining was far reaching and had immediate impact on coalfield residents. To Save the Land and People is a history of the early grassroots efforts to stop strip mining in eastern Kentucky, where “broad form” deeds signed at the beginning of the 20th Century were used by coal operators to destroy the surface land without permission or compensation of the surface owner. The program focuses on the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People, whose members used every means possible – from legal petitions and local ordinances, to guns and dynamite – to fight strip mining. The documentary makes a powerful statement about the land and how we use it, and how its misuse conflicts with local cultures and values.

Funding provided by the Kentucky Humanities Council, KET Fund for Independent Production, Kentucky Oral History Commission, Commission on Religion in Appalachia, The Ford Foundation.

Screening Highlights

Austin Film Society, Texas Documentary Tour
South By SouthWest Film Festival
Louisville Film & Video Festival - Juror's Award
First Interstate Summit for the Mountains, Pipestem, WV

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Women stop work on a strip mine in East Kentucky. Photo by Robert Cooper

A strip mine in operation

A reclaimed strip mine in Kentucky

Episode #207: Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song

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“The film is among the most graceful to come out of Appalshop… It definitely does justice to the raw honesty of Dickens’ words and the truth of her experience.”
- Bob Pest, Ozark Foothills Film Festival

“The
screening was great, just about everyone in the theater gathered in the lobby afterwards to talk about the greatness of Hazel and Mimi’s film.”
– Jim Demps, Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago

“Impressive.”
–Geoffrey Himes, No Depression magazine

Synopsis

From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has lived the songs she sings, fashioning from her experiences a gritty, heartfelt country music that is in plenty of evidence in this biography.

Full Description

From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has lived the songs she sings. A pioneering woman in Bluegrass and hardcore country music, Hazel has influenced generations of songwriters and musicians. Her songs of hard work, hard times, and hardy souls have bolstered working people at picket lines and union rallies throughout the land. Her piercing vocals power the soundtracks for Harlan County USA and Matewan. The Washington Post described her as "a living legend of American music, a national treasure," and in 2001, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded her a National Heritage Fellowship. In this intimate portrait, interviews with Hazel and fellow musicians such as Alison Krauss, Naomi Judd, and Dudley Connell are interwoven with archival footage, recent performances, and 16 powerful songs including “Mama’s Hand,” “ Working Girl Blues,” and “Black Lung.” Website: www.appalshop.org/film/hazel

Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, KET Fund for Independent Production, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, West Virginia Humanities Council, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Hellman Family Fund, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, Appalachian Community Fund.

Producer: Mimi Pickering
Co-Producer of Headwaters #200, Mimi has been making documentary films and videotapes since coming to Appalshop as a student in 1971. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she recently completed Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song (2001). Other work includes Chemical Valley, co-produced with Anne Lewis, which aired on P.O.V. in 1991, as well as Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning, which was part of Played In the USA/The Independents on The Learning Channel and PBS stations.

Screening Highlights

Athens International Film & Video Festival
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
New York University
Experience Music, Seattle
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum
Nashville Independent Film Festival
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley

Check these websites for more information:

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Singer Hazel Dickens

Filmmaker Mimi Pickering with Hazel Dickens

Filming Hazel Dickens in concert. Photo by Jeffrey Whetstone

Episode #208: Coal Bucket Outlaw & Applewise

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Coal Bucket Outlaw

“Someone’s got to haul the coal, and at the paltry sums per load, Kentucky truckers have got to haul ass as well. Hansell’s day-in-the-life doc links our addiction to fossil fuels to a megawatt system of national abuse – where the rubber meets the road just leads to corporate offices of power.”
– Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA

“Candid, insightful and surprising… “
– Beyond the Box, ITVS

Synopsis

Coal Bucket Outlaw is built around a day in the life of a Kentucky coal truck driver, the program gives Americans a direct look at where our energy comes from, and reveals the human and environmental price we pay for our national addiction to fossil fuels.

Full Description

Built around a day in the life of a Kentucky coal truck driver, Coal Bucket Outlaw looks at the people who haul the fuel that powers over 50 percent of the electricity used in this country. These working families provide an intimate glimpse into a rural America that sometimes crosses legal lines as it struggles to get by, revealing the human and environmental price we pay for our national addiction to fossil fuels. The program follows two Kentucky coal truck drivers as they chase their version of the American dream, while others in the community talk of the damage done by overweight trucks to human life and property. Facts and figures about coal as an energy source place these individual struggles in a national context. Coal Bucket Outlaw asks the question: If outlaws deliver half of our nation’s energy, are consumers and policymakers complicit?

Produced by Appalshop in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the KET Fund for Independent Production.

Website: appalshop.org/film/coalbucket.

Producer: Tom Hansell
Tom has worked at Appalshop since 1990, producing nationally distributed radio and video programming. Tom’s second Appalshop video, Coal Bucket Outlaw (2001), was shot entirely in digital video as part of the Independent Television Service’s Digital Initiative. Hansell’s previous documentary “The Breaks of the Mountain” looks at the future of eco-tourism in a east Kentucky community. He also co-directed “Evelyn Williams with Anne Lewis. Tom is a graduate of the Ohio University School of Telecommunications in Athens, OH, and is actively involved in local environmental issues.

Screening Highlights

Museum of Modern Art
Louisville Film & Video Festival
Flooded Out Film Festival, Charleston, WV
Appalachian Studies Conference

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Trucker Herbie Adams with filmmaker Tom Hansell

A Vehicle Enforcement Officer stops an overweight truck

Filming trucks for Coal Bucket Outlaw

Applewise

“Good stuff for those who want to delve into social and cultural history.”
–Darlene Wilson, Southeast Community College, Cumberland, KY

“Enjoyable!”
– Roanoke, VA television viewer

Synopsis

In Applewise third generation family farmers struggle to make a living from a small orchard in an era of a global economy.

Full Description

Applewise is an insider's portrait of the Mullins family, third generation apple growers, and their struggle to maintain and manage one of only two remaining family-run apple orchards in Wise County, Virginia. The program follows the growing seasons as family members try to keep the orchard business profitable while struggling with pesticide issues and sustainability. Others look to the coal industry to strike it rich, and valuable orchards are strip mined and destroyed. The documentary explores issues of self-sustainable agriculture and sustainable land management, corporate competition, pesticide use and family unity.

A co-production of Appalshop with WBRA/Roanoke in association with NETA and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the KET Fund for Independent Production.

Producer: Anthony Slone
Born and raised in Hollybush in Knott County, KY, Anthony joined Appalshop as a film student in 1973. He now makes his home in southwestern Virginia where he filmed Applewise (1997) as well as the Headwaters #100 episode on the legendary Carter Family, Sunny Side of Life. Homemade Tales, a portrait of Anthony’s mother, was also featured in the first Headwaters series.

Episode #209: Stranger With A Camera

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“A provocative moral inquiry but also a vivid portrait of a place and time.” – The New York Times

“A quietly incisive and sublime examination of media power… Top of the List.” – Booklist

"This provocative, troubling film about an almost forgotten tragedy will arouse conflicting emotions, but it's a perceptive meditation on our eternal ambivalence about our relationship with the media." -- Library Journal

Synopsis

An encore presentation, Stranger with a Camera is an award-winning exploration of the relationship between media makers and the communities they portray in their work.

Full Description

In 1967 Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor visited the mountains of Central Appalachia to document poverty. A local landlord, who resented the presence of filmmakers on his property, shot and killed O'Connor, in part because of his anger over the media images of Appalachia that had become icons in the nation's War on Poverty. Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret, a native of Appalachia, uses O'Connor's death as a lens to explore the complex relationship between those who make films to promote social change and the people whose lives are represented in such media depictions. Through first-person accounts of the killing and the perspective of three decades of reflection, Stranger With A Camera leads viewers on a quest for understanding - a quest that ultimately leads Barret to examine her own role as both a maker of media and a member of the Appalachian community she portrays.

Website: appalshop.org/film/stranger

A co-production of Appalshop with KET, the Kentucky Network, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Southern Humanities Media Fund, Soros Documentary Fund, Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Kentucky Arts Council, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, American Documentary, Inc., Kentucky Humanities Council, The Ford Foundation, Florence and John Schumann Foundation, Palmer Foundation, Women in Film, Edie & Barry Bingham, Jr., and Elizabeth Ann Puleston.

Producer: Elizabeth Barret
After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1973, this Hazard, Kentucky native joined Appalshop as a student in the Appalachian Educational Media Program. At Appalshop Elizabeth Barret has pursued an abiding interest in the history, culture, and people of Appalachia. A 1997-98 recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, Elizabeth’s documentary Stranger With A Camera premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2000, and in 2002 received the John E. O’Connor Award from the American Historical Association, recognizing outstanding interpretations of history in film and video. Other documentaries by Elizabeth include Long Journey Home and Coal Mining Women. Historian Judi Jennings served as co-producer.

Background material, resources, and a teaching guide are available at these sites:
www.itvs.org/strangerwithacamera
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2000/strangerwithacamera

Screening Highlights

SundanceFilm Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival - Golden Gate Award
DoubleTake Documentary Festival
Museum of Modern Art
Hot Docs/Canadian International Documentary Festival
Taos Talking Picture Festival

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Filming for Stranger with a Camera

Elizabeth Barret questions her role as a filmmaker in Stranger with a Camera (photo by John Perkins)

Triptych depicting Hugh O’Connor, Elizabeth Barret, and Hobart Ison

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Headwaters Television Episodes

Episode #201: A Place in the Country

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Full Description

Screening Highlights

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Episode #202: Ralph Stanley’s Story

Synopsis

Full Description

Screening Highlights

Episode #203: Shelter

Synopsis

Full Description

Screening Highlights

Episode #204: His Eye is on the Sparrow & Girls’ Hoops

His Eye is on the Sparrow

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Screening Highlights

Girls’ Hoops

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Screening Highlights

Episode #205: Rough Side of the Mountain

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Screening Highlights

Episode #206: To Save the Land and People

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Screening Highlights

Episode #207: Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song

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Screening Highlights

Episode #208: Coal Bucket Outlaw & Applewise

Coal Bucket Outlaw

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Applewise

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Episode #209: Stranger With A Camera

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