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Winds of Change Newsletter, March 2011 See sidebar for table of contents
On Coal River Premiers in WV
 On
February 26, the acclaimed documentary film, On Coal River, had
its West Virginia premiere at the Appalachian Film Festival, held at the
Keith-Albee Theater in Huntington, WV. The film won Best Documentary,
with a $1,000 prize.
Shot over a five-year period, On Coal River
follows a former miner, Ed Wiley, and his neighbors in a
David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of the Coal River valley,
their children, and life as they know it.
Although the story is well-known to West Virginians,
the film has found a broad audience, screening at festivals including
Silverdocs, the Hamptons International Film Festival, New Orleans Film
Festival, Chesapeake Film Festival, Big Sky Film Festival, and Moving
Pictures Festival. On Coal River won Koronisfest Best Documentary
Award, and was nominated for an IFP/Gotham Award.
After the screening filmmaker Adams Wood, Ed Wiley,
and OVECs co-director Dianne Bady took questions from the
standing-room-only crowd.
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