Haw River Films

Feature-Length Films

Haw River Films has produced a number of award-winning documentaries.

activists walking down the street

Mountain Top Removal

Award-winning documentary examining the expansion of mountaintop removal coal mining and its impacts on Southern Appalachia, with a focus on the grassroots resistance led by local citizens. Welcome to the Anthropocene.

GrassRoots Stages

A one-hour, single-camera journey into the world of the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, filmed in Trumansburg, New York.

Donna the Buffalo on stage at GrassRoots Stages
Bimblebox Documentary

Bimblebox

Award-winning documentary following one woman’s efforts to stop China First, the world’s largest proposed coal mine in Queensland, Australia. Nominated for Best Environmental Documentary at the 2012 Byron Bay Film Festival.

A Beautiful Feeling

A follow-up to GrassRoots Stages and filmed a decade later, the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Music Festival expands to spring and fall events at Shakori Hills in North Carolina and the Virginia Key festival in Miami, Florida.

A Beautiful Feeling poster
The Courthouse under renovations

The Courthouse

A Southern Gothic portrait of the rebuilding of the iconic courthouse in Pittsboro, North Carolina, after it was destroyed by fire.

“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”
— William Faulkner

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