Located in coal mining country in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Appalshop, a cooperative media center, has produced over thirty films that document and celebrate life and culture in the Appalachian mountain communities from which most of the filmmakers hail. Begun in 1969 as a film and video training project under the War on Poverty, Appalshop has grown over fifteen years into one of the nation's leading regional media art centers, whose work also embraces theater, television, photography, radio, recordings, and a quarterly publication. PFA presents three programs of Appalshop films (see also July 30) by way of saluting the first fifteen years of Appalshop, and welcoming the next.
