From the Hills and Hollers: A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN

Join us Thursday, February 25th at 7:00 p.m. for the next installment in our Appalachian Stories Film Series as we present a film that shows the tenacity, grit, and perseverance of Appalachian women!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

About the film

Filmed over a year’s time in the region around Bent Mountain, VA, the filmmakers join a band of Appalachian local women in their underfunded, outmatched, and long-term battle against a corporation whose greed and corruption will seemingly stop at nothing to build a natural gas pipeline through the beautiful landscape of the Virginia mountains and put at risk the environment and livelihoods of tens of thousands of residents throughout Virginia and West Virginia.

Directed by award-winning screenwriter and director James Mottern — a Virginian himself — A Beast Touch The Mountain is a film with both a widespread message and a deeply personal one.

Check out the rest of our Hills & Hollers Series Line-Up

This series is sponsored by University Libraries, College of Health Sciences and Professions, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Honors Tutorial College, OU School of Film, and The Office of Signature Academic Experiences.