On Coal River
ABOUT
Coal River Valley is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. Filmed over a period of five years, ON COAL RIVER follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it.
ADAMS J WOOD is an award-winning Director/Producer/DP. His feature documentary ON COAL RIVER premiered at AFI/Silverdocs in 2010, was official selection of over 30 film festivals, and was nominated for an IFP/Gotham Award. His previous film, BOOM - THE SOUND OF EVICTION (2002), followed gentrification and eviction struggles during San Francisco's original dot-com boom and bust. More recently, he directed and produced JUST OVER THE LINE (2020), a short documentary on rural incarceration, for Independent Lens. As a freelance filmmaker, Adams has worked with NGOs to cover tuna fisheries in the Pacific, oil drilling in the Arctic, and the impact of fracking in the American West. He has also worked in reality television, including contributions to the docu-series OCEAN WARRIORS. Adams lives in Asheville, NC.
CREDITS
Francine Cavanaugh
Jillian Elizabeth
Adams J Wood
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