Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary shows how mountaintop removal mining affects the mountains and people in West Virginia. It includes interviews with local residents and activists who talk about what they have seen and experienced.
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What happens
Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice is a 2006 documentary film made and directed by filmmaker Chet Pancake. The narration in the film is by actress Lauren Graham. The film is about the impact of mountaintop removal mining on the mountains, environment, and people in the Appalachia area of West Virginia. The film includes interviews of various people living in West Virginia, including Julia Bonds (a West Virginia organizer and activist, who received the 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize), Ken Hechler (an American politician and former West Virginia Secretary of State), and William Saxey (a former director of West Virginia Division of Forestry). Interviews were conducted by the director, or Ann Pancake, and filmed using a digital-video camera. Ann Pancake, an American fiction writer and essayist, also provided research and consulted in the making of the film. The film soundtrack is acoustical guitar music by Ben Chasny of the musical group Six Organs of Admittance. Filming began in early 2000, and the completed documentary was released in 2006. The film cost approximately $50,000 to make, and was funded mostly by art grants and the director's money. Pancake did not have a budget to support a film crew. The siblings Chet Pancake and Ann Pancake were born and raised in West Virginia, and they said this fact helped build trust with the local people they interviewed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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