Film Screening - The Spirit of the People: A Documentary Film by James Hollenbaugh

Name: Film Screening - The Spirit of the People: A Documentary Film by James Hollenbaugh
Start: 2025-10-21T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 1310 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40208

Schedule

Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1310 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40208 | Louisville, KY

Photographer Shelby Lee Adams reflects on his life-long journey to seek out identity by capturing portraits of Appalachia’s mountain people through the lens of his camera. Adams’ need to document the unseen self-providers creates a desire to keep alive a culture that is slowly disappearing. As Adams prepares his archive for future generations, he relives his childhood roots through annual visits to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky.
James Hollenbaugh is a Pennsylvania-based American Filmmaker predominantly working in small gauge film formats. Focusing primarily in the documentary, essay film, and experimental genres, his work has been exhibited internationally at prominent film festivals. He is the recipient of the 2015 Stellar Award in Documentary from the Black Maria Film Festival and two Best of Festival Awards at the U.S. Super 8mm Film Festival at Rutgers University. In Spring 2024 Hollenbaugh was awarded the Edison Innovation Award at Princeton University for his series of artist documentary portraits in conjunction with the Thomas Edison Film Festival. He has been the Program Director for over fifteen years at ‘Moviate’, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s only film cooperative where he programs monthly film screenings and the annual Moviate Underground Film Festival.