A Boone Docs Film Fest special presentation with support by SouthArts
King Coal
A screening of the feature-length documentary by featured festival artist filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon, followed by a discussion and Q&A.
February 23, 2024 at 7 p.m. Lobby doors open at 6:30 p.m.
FREE admission - No ticket required / reservations appreciated
All Ages (children under age of 17 must be accompanied by parent/legal guardian)
General Admission (non-reserved seating)
The Boone Docs Film Festival and the historic Appalachian Theatre will host Oscar-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon for a workshop focused on visual storytelling and documentary ethics, followed by a screening of her documentary “King Coal.”
The workshop with Elaine McMillion Sheldon will be held on Friday, Feb. 23 from 1 – 3 p.m. and is free to the public. This workshop will support regional efforts to address extractive storytelling in the South and Appalachia and provide a wider discussion of ethics in documentary filmmaking. Sheldon offers decades of experience presenting nuanced images of her home region to a national audience.
The highly acclaimed and beautifully filmed “King Coal” documentary will be screened that night at 7 p.m. and also is free to the public. There will be a Q&A with the filmmaker following the screening.
The workshop scheduled for Friday, Feb 23, 2024 from 1:00pm-3:00pm in the community room of Appalachian Theatre (limited capacity).
photo by Steven Bridges
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker. She has been nominated for six Emmy awards, is a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee, a 2021 Livingston Award Finalist, and a 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Sheldon is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries - "Heroin(e)" and "Recovery Boys" - that explore America's opioid crisis. "Heroin(e)" was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award and won the 2018 News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary. Visit elainemcmillionsheldon.com to learn more.
About “King Coal” - A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, KING COAL meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in a spectacularly beautiful and deeply moving immersion into Central Appalachia where coal is not just a resource, but a way of life.
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While deeply situated in the communities under the reign of King Coal, where McMillion Sheldon has lived and worked her entire life, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected through an immersive mosaic of belonging, ritual, and imagination. Emerging from the long shadows of the coal mines, KING COAL untangles the pain from the beauty, and illuminates the innately human capacity for change.The film received support and funding from the Sundance Documentary Institute, Creative Capital, Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult Film Fund, First Look Media, and the West Virginia Humanities Council.
About BooneDocs Film Fest - Jury selected short-form documentary films with a dedicated focus of living, working, and celebrating life in the Appalachian Region of the United States.
Films will be screened in blocks and filmmakers will offer short Q&A sessions following each block of films.
There are two awards announced at the end of the festival - Audience Award ($200) and Jury Award ($300).
From The Appalachian Region Commission - "Appalachia is made up of 423 counties across 13 states and spans 206,000 square miles, from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The Region’s 26 million residents live in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and all of West Virginia."
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