KET Film: Appalshop Film 'Sludge' to Air
WHAT:
Currently on KET
Appalshop Film 'Sludge' to Air on KET'S Kentucky Channel
WHEN:
Premiers:
1:00 pm Sunday
May 11
WHERE:
KET KY Channel
KET HD KY - Insight Cable 192
KET HD KY - Insight Cable 918
DETAILS:
Appalshop's documentary film "Sludge" will air four times in May across the Commonwealth on Kentucky Educational Television's (KET) Kentucky Channel. Shortly after midnight on October 11, 2000, a coal sludge pond in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of the Tug Fork River into the Big Sandy. The Martin County sludge spill killed all aquatic life along 30 miles of river, damaged municipal water systems, and caused millions of dollars in property damage.
Appalshop filmmaker Robert Salyer follows the government agencies and community members through their clean up efforts and their attempts to understand the causes of a disaster thirty times larger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Filmed over four years, the documentary chronicles the aftermath of the disaster, the Mine Safety and Health Administration "whistleblower" case of Jack Spadaro, and the looming threat of coal sludge ponds throughout the Appalachian mountains.
Sludge is scheduled to air on KET's Kentucky Channel:
Sunday, May 11 at 1:00 pm
Friday, May 16 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 17 at 12:00 am
Saturday, May 17 at 2:00 pm
Noted Kentucky historian Loyal Jones described Sludge as "A shocking documentary.… [T]he film leaves this viewer with the conviction that without a public uprising, state and federal governments will stand with the energy corporations against the safety and welfare of citizens."
Sludge is available on DVD from Appalshop (800-545-7467 or www.appalshop.org/store.htm). Appalshop is a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia producing original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books. Since 1969, Appalshop has remained dedicated to the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner the resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others.
SPONSORS:
Kentucky Educational Television
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
(859) 258-7000
