TEA TALK- HARLAN COUNTY USA
TEA TALK
Special 50th Anniversary screening of the Academy Award-Winning Documentary
HARLAN COUNTY USA
1976 | 103 minutes | US
Join us as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of HARLAN COUNTY USA. We’ll screen this heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Academy Award winning director and producer Barbara Kopple will be in conversation with Mary Mott following the screening.
Barbara Kopple
With a career spanning more than fifty years, Barbara Kopple long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation, with well over thirty films. Although she is best known for her documentary work, her projects have ranged from labor union documentaries to fictional feature films and an educational series for kids. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance in cinema verité and is the recipient of two Academy Awards in documentary filmmaking for HARLAN COUNTY USA and AMERICAN DREAM, and six Emmy awards. Barbara’s latest project GUMBO COALITION is about two Black and Latinx civil rights champions. In 2023, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – just one of the many awards she has been given across her career. She founded and oversees Cabin Creek Films, which was created in 1972 in NYC. When questioned about her documentary work, Barbara will inevitably say,
“it’s all just stories”.
