{"id":18750,"date":"2022-12-13T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volumes.lib.utk.edu\/?post_type=post&p=18750"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:12:22","slug":"appalachia-documentary-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/appalachia-documentary-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lens into Appalachia: A Conversation with Documentary Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Save the date for the 2023 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, February 28, at 7 p.m. (EST), at the Bijou Theater<\/strong>. Join us for a conversation with director and producer Ashley York and documentary filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Our guests will address the portrayal of Appalachian culture in film and discuss their current projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested<\/a>, but not required, for the 2023 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us prior to the lecture to watch hillbilly<\/em>. UT Libraries will screen the hillbilly<\/em> film twice:<\/strong>
Thursday, February 23, at 5:30 p.m.<\/strong>
Monday, February 27, at 5:30 p.m.<\/strong>
John C. Hodges Library\u00a0
Lindsay Young Auditorium, 1st floor\u00a0
To attend the screening, RSVP to\u00a0hodgessociety@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Ashley York<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>is a director and producer who is interested in documentaries, cinematic journalism, and media as a means for promoting social change and justice. She has worked on Academy Award-winning teams and as a producer on projects that have premiered at the Sundance, Berlin, and SXSW film festivals as well as on Netflix, HBO, National Geographic, Oprah Winfrey\u2019s Network, A&E, IFC, Discovery, and the Sundance Channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

York is the co-director of the documentary film hillbilly<\/em><\/a>. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and filmed in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and California, the film uses a combination of personal narrative, regional history, and conversations with Appalachians ranging from York’s grandmother to scholar bell hooks to challenge pervasive perceptions of Appalachia, showcasing the African-American Affrilachian Poets workshop and the Appalachian Media Institute at Appalshop, where queer young adults find community and refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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hillbilly<\/em> introduces audiences to a nuanced, authentic Appalachia that is quite conscious of how it has been portrayed and the impacts of those portrayals. The documentary deconstructs mainstream representations while asking crucial questions: Where did the hillbilly archetype come from and why has it endured on-screen for more than a hundred years? How does it relate to the exploitation of the land and people who live there? How do Appalachian and rural people view themselves as a result of these negative portrayals, and what is the impact on the rest of America?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

York was born in Kentucky and attended the University of Kentucky, where she received a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts where she teaches in the Division of Media Arts + Practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elaine McMillion Sheldon<\/strong><\/a> is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker. Sheldon is the director of two Netflix original documentaries, Heroin(e)<\/em> and Recovery Boys<\/em>, that explore America’s opioid crisis. She has been named a Creative Capital Awardee, Guggenheim Fellow, a USA Fellow by United States Artists, and one of the \u201c25 New Faces of Independent Film\u201d by Filmmaker<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheldon will premiere her forthcoming feature-length documentary, King Coal<\/em>, at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. King Coal<\/em> documents the journey of a coal miner\u2019s daughter exploring the region\u2019s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change. Her 2019 film Coal\u2019s Deadly Dust<\/em>, which investigates the rise of black lung disease among coal miners, was nominated for two Emmy awards. Her interactive documentary, Hollow<\/em>, winner of a Peabody Award, examines the future of rural America through the eyes and voices of West Virginians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheldon is an assistant professor of cinema studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lecture is hosted by Friends of the Knox County Public Library<\/a>, the John C. Hodges Society of the University of Tennessee Libraries<\/a>, and UT\u2019s Cinema Studies Program<\/a>. The lecture honors the late Wilma Dykeman Stokely<\/a> (1920\u20132006), writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist, and long-time friend of the Knox County Public Library. Her papers are part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives<\/a> at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Speakers at the Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture<\/a> represent a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and work, but all have a deep connection to one or more of Stokely\u2019s passions: Appalachia, the environment, and racial and gender equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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