Saturday, October 19
Director: Elizabeth Barret
2000 | 61 min | USA
Filmmaker in Attendance
TV audiences in the 1960s saw Appalachia depicted by shocking images of poverty spliced with provocative voice-overs about the diminishing American dream. Feeling like a prop joke in the war on poverty, eastern Kentuckian Hobart Ison shot and killed Canadian journalist Hugh O’Connor in 1967. Thirty years later, a filmmaker from Appalachia revisits this tragedy as a way to examine the relationship between media-makers and the communities they portray in their work.
Plays as part of Collectively at the Mead, Appalshop
Co-presented by Rooftop Films