Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike
Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike. The documentary short is based on the feature documentary A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas!). The site is a living…
Un Trip: raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation
A film by Anne Lewis and Laura Varela Un Trip takes us through the life of Xicanindio poet/activist raúlrsalinas told through poetry and the rhythm of jazz. This story examines,…
His Eye Is On The Sparrow
HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW 2003, 26:40 Ethel Caffie-Austin, West Virginia ’s first lady of gospel music, performs and teaches African American spirituals, hymns, and contemporary gospel songs. "Captures her in…
Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek
MORGAN SEXTON: BANJO PLAYER FROM BULL CREEK 1991, 29:00 Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won…
Minnie Black’s Gourd Band
MINNIE BLACK'S GOURD BAND 1988, 29:00 Minnie Black is ninety years old but she's still making music and art out of the gourds she grows in her backyard garden in East…
Lily May Ledford
LILY MAY LEDFORD 1988, 29:00 Lily May Ledford--the original "banjo-pickin' girl"--led the Coon Creek Girls, the first all-woman stringband on radio. The program includes footage of Lily May performing and interviews…
Still from film by anne lewis: ARTUS MOSER of BUCKEYE COVE
Artus Moser of Buckeye Cove
ARTUS MOSER of BUCKEYE COVE 1985, 29:00 Artus Moser, "a Renaissance man of the mountains," was born in 1894, and grew up on the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina, where…
Sarah Bailey
SARAH BAILEY 1984, 29:00 From Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky, a portrait of e of Appalachia's finest weavers and corn shuck artists. "From her corn shuck dolls and flowers to…