7:00 PM B.J. Gudmundsson will present the first part of her second feature documentary, “”30 – Cal Price and The Pocahontas Times”, made in Pocahontas County. It is a one-hour documentary of the play she wrote about Cal Price. She will also show “Out of the Storm”, a landmark film about an unknown event linking the state to the people of New England. This new film is about one of America’s most interesting small newspapers, the Pocahontas County Times, and its famous editor, Cal Price, who was a national leader in the environmental movement.  

October 12 – Saturday 

1 & 3 PM The Night of the Hunter ELK THEATER 

7: 00 PM Daniel Boyd, WV’s leading feature film director, will present his second film, “Strangest Dreams – Invasion of the Space Preachers.” There will be a party before the film with music provided by WV’s leading blues band, The Carpenter Ants. Leader guitarist Michael Lipton did the music for the film.  

October 13 – Sunday 

1 & 3 PM The Night of the Hunter ELK THEATER 

1 PM Sunday at the Landmark Center for the Arts.

Mari-Lynn Evans, a native of Bull Town, Braxton County, will present clips from her new $1.7 million four-part history of Appalachia, The Appalachians. Ms. Evans is an award-winning filmmaker who has finally come home to make an endearing portrait of her native Appalachia. The series will be shown nationally on PBS in early 2003.

7:00 PM Mark Samels, senior producer for PBS’s showcase series, “The American Experience”, will be present to discuss his film on WV native son, John Nash – “A Brilliant Madness.” Mr. Samels worked in WV for many years, even working on “Invasion of the Space Preachers.” He directed many films at WV Public Broadcast, including “West Virginia”(1995), the $1.5 million dollar history of the state. Since then he has worked in Pa. and Boston, producing many of the finest long documentaries made. He will talk about working with Nash, Sylvia Nassar, and the author of the biography on Nash, “A Beautiful Mind,” and many other topics. He directed one of the “Different Drummer” films that he still considers one of the finest series ever produced by WV Public TV.  

Before Mr. Samels, Bonita Rapham’s Sundance-screened film, “2+2”, will be shown. It is an 11-minute experimental film about John Nash, using fantastic visuals and information on schizophrenia to reveal the amazing world Nash created in his own mind.