Films produced and directed by Mimi Pickering, Appalshop Films and Making Connections News, as well as some favorites by others.

Mimi Pickering is an award-winning filmmaker and director of Appalshop’s Community Media Initiative. Her documentaries often feature women as principle storytellers, focus on struggles for equity and justice, and explore the efforts of grassroots communities to address local concerns that frequently reflect global issues. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council. In 2005, her film The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man was selected by the Librarian of Congress for inclusion in the prestigious National Film Registry. Other films include Chemical Valley (broadcast on POV), which focuses on environmental racism and the implications of the Bhopal disaster for residents of WV’s Kanawha Valley; and Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song.