Robert Gates at South Charleston’s LaBelle Theater 2010
President Kevin Carpenter of the WV Filmmakers Festival in Sutton told me that Gates was chosen as this year’s WV filmmaker of the year. I have been trying to call Bob but can’t get a response. In any case, congrats to Bob who has done so much for WV filmmaking since at least 1977.
Dr. Fred Pollock has programmed a night of new films about Jews in baseball for Sunday, October 21, Cultural Center at 3:30. Read the rest of this entry »
West Virginia Filmmakers Festival’s Call for Entries and Nominations sought for West Virginia Filmmaker of the Year.
The West Virginia Filmmakers Festival is launching its 2012 Call for Entries, inviting filmmakers around the country to submit feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental works. Films should have a West Virginia connection such as the film made by a West Virginian (Producer, Director, Crew, Actor, etc), about West Virginia, in West Virginia or of interest to West Virginians. The festival will run October 5– October 7 at the Elk Theater and the Landmark Studio for the Arts in historic Sutton, WV. All entries must be received by September 15th, 2012. Mail DVD entries to : West Virginia Filmmaker Festival C/O Town of Sutton Attn: Kevin Carpenter 450 4th Street Sutton, WV 26601. Read the rest of this entry »
Usually I write about WV-related films, and this one is – because it is about the man who got me my job in WV, Don Roberts. A million people have asked me how I came to the state, and I tell them a fellow by the name of Don Roberts told Fred Glazer, state librarian in 1978, about me. Now there is a great new film about him – as an organic farmer. Read the rest of this entry »
Ray Schmitt continues to look at non-linear ways of thinking about the world in “An Open Mind.” Here is a description – The human body can heal itself in miraculous ways. This film is about energy healing; the power of prayer, faith and beliefs; rising of the collective consciousness, and how we can sense and correct an energy imbalance before it expresses itself in physical illness
Dr. Fred Barkey, one of WV’s leading labor historians, has had his Ph.D. thesis published by WVU Press – “Working Class Radicals.” Gordon Simmons, one of WV’s leading experts on WV labor history and intellectuals, teaching philosophy courses for Marshall, etc, has interviewe Dr. Barkey for his WVLC local cable series, “West Virginia Author.” Channel 17 on Suddenlink. Read the rest of this entry »
Finally, Leann Hughes, a WV filmmaker has produced a film about one of WV’s most beautiful sights, Black Water Falls. The Premiere will be June 17th at Blackwater Falls State Park. Read the rest of this entry »
A mini-docudrama about the death and re-interment of
Civil War Captain Philip Thurmond CSA in Winfield, West Virginia.
With narration by Paul Dooley.
Dr. Fred Barkey, one of my oldest WV friends and a leading WV labor historian, has finally had his Ph.D. thesis on the Socialist Party in WV published by WV Press. Here is a description of the book from its website-http://wvupressonline.com/barkley_working_class_radicals_9781935978459 – Read the rest of this entry »
On April 13th, at 7 PM, Alban Art Center, 65 Olde Main Street, St. Albans, WV
in St. Albans, Don Shearer will introduce a film which includes him, “The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.” Admission is FREE. ( See my review at http://blogs.wvgazette.com/wvfilm/2011/10/04/lost-airmen-of-buckenwald/)
This film is very well done and Don gives some great interviews. If you love WWII, be sure to watch this brand new film that has been shown only a handful of places around the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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