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“RISE UP!  WEST VIRGINIA”

2008 Award of Excellence – West Virginia Filmmakers Festival

Award-winning filmmaker B. J. Gudmundsson takes a personal journey from her life-long home in the eastern mountains of West Virginia to the southern coalfields of her beloved state. Once there, she joins the Mountain Keepers who have been fighting a 20-year battle to save their homes from the destructive practice of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.   Read More

Now Available at the following public libraries:

Kanawha Co. Public Library – Charleston, WV

South Charleston Public Library – S. Charleston, WV

Denver Public Library – Denver, CO

Philadelphia Free Library – Philadelphia, PA

Princeton Public Library – Princeton, WV

Shepherd University Library – Shepherdstown, WV

Pocahontas County Free Libraries – Marlinton, WV

Cabell County Public Library – Huntington, WV

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“The Mountain Mourning Collection”

Presented by Christians for the Mountains

Produced by B. J. Gudmundsson     West Virginia Filmmaker of the Year 2005

Featuring Maria Gunnoe and Larry Gibson

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In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, a coal-mining process known as Mountaintop Removal is devastating God’s creation.  As our oldest mountaintops vanish, the people are left behind.  Having paid the highest price – they are abandoned in what is called “the sacrifice zone.”   These are their stories.   Read More      

The Long Runway Home

Retired USAF Colonel John W. Gwinn is known as “The Father of the Greenbrier Valley Airport.”  Ruth Tolley Gwinn is an aviation pioneer and the youngest woman in West Virginia to obtain a private pilot’s license.

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Listen to the Women

2008 Award of Excellence   WV Filmmakers Festival

Gloria Martin is the former Executive Director of the Family Refuge Center in the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia.  Her narrative on women’s issues and family violence is appropriately titled “Listen to the Women”

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We remember Jim Foster

of Bob White, West Virginia

who passed away Nov. 1, 2009

Watch and Listen to Jim Foster

from the film

“Rise Up! West Virginia”

Jim Foster – Part I

Jim Foster – Part II

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WV Rose Up! For New Movie

Atherine Spurlin - Quarrier, WV

Singing at the Premier of

“Rise Up! West Virginia”

In Appalachia

Mountaintop Removal