Synopsis
In the misty folds of the Appalachian mountains lies
Pigeonroost hollow, in Blair, West Virginia. With its narrow creek
and crawdads, its wild ginseng and raccoons, Pigeonroost looks as it
might have a century ago -- a woody haven tucked away from time and
technology. But for how long? And at what price? In May 1998, Arch
Coal, Inc. announced it would expand its Dal-Tex strip mine just above
the small town of Blair. But
lifetime residents said too many had already been bought out or chased
away by the giant mine, and that Arch Coal's planned expansion was
the final threat to their once-tranquil way of life. Forty families
-- where there were once 300 -- stayed in Blair. Razing Appalachia is
the story of their remarkable fight -- against the second-largest coal
company in America, against the know-nothing state political leaders
and, unhappily, against the 400 union miners whose jobs were on the
line.
Awards
Best
in Environmental Issues, Vermont
International Film
Festival, Burlington, VT, 2003
Honorable
Mention, EarthVision Environmental Film Festival,
Santa Cruz, CA, 2003
Honorable
Mention, Rural
Route Film Festival, 2003
First
Prize, The Insitute for Rural Poverty, Farmington, ME
Special Jury Prize in Documentary, Cinevue International
Film Festival
Festivals & Screenings
Hot Springs
Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AK
United Nations Association
Film Festival, Stanford University
Vermont International Film
Festival, Burlington, VT
Wild & Scenic
Environmental Film Festival, Nevada City, CA
Finger Lakes
Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY
DocSide
Film Series, Ragtag Cinema Cafe, Columbia, MO
Real
to Reel Film & Video Festival, Shelby, NC
Hazel Wolf Environmental
Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Semarang International Film Festival, Semarang, Indonesia
D.C.
Environmental Film Festival, Washington, D.C.
Nashville
Independent Film Festival, Nashville, TN
Woodstock
Film Festival
Tahoe
International Film Festival
Valleyfest
Independent Film Festival, Knoxville, TN
Downstream
International Film Festival, Gainesville, GA
Int'l Working Class Film & Video Festival,
San Francisco, CA
Memphis Digital Arts Co-op Digital Festival, Memphis,
TN
Great Lakes
Film Festival,Erie, PA
Peace & Human Security Media Festival, New York,
NY
Ojai Film
Festival, Ojai, CA
Pennsylvania
Film Festival ,Scranton,
PA
Eye of the Beholder
Film Festival, Asheville, NC
Flooded Out Film Festival, Charleston, WV
Cucalorus Film Festival,
Wilmington, NC
7th Annual
Ethics Day, Western Illinois University,
Macomb, IL
American
Rivers, Washington, DC
The Appalachian
Center of Berea College,Berea, KY
West Virginia Coal
Summit, Charleston, WV
Southern Appalachian Biodiversity
Project, Asheville, NC
Center for Popular
Economics, Amherst, MA
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, London, KY
Save the Children, Berea KY
SEED Center, Albuquerque, NM
New York Youth Summit on Sustainable Development
Woodland Community Land Trust, Clairfield, TN
Southern Girls Covention, Dunwoody, GA
Antioch
New England Graduate School, Keene, NH
Environmental Grantmakers
Association, Asheville, NC
One World Week, University of Leeds, UK
Omni Center for
Peace, Justice
& Ecology, Fayetteville, AK
Pocahontas Free Libraries, Marlinton, WV
College of William & Mary Earth Day Celebration
University of Iowa Earth Day Celebration
Center for
Folklore
& Ethnography, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Voices
from the Community
Photographs and quotes from the documentary >more
Documentary Credits
Producer,
Director, Editor - Sasha Waters
Camera - Ted Bourne, Cheryl Hess,
Kathryn Ramey, Ken Wyatt
Sound Editor & Mixer - Bob Hurst
Researcher - Sarah Dunham
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