1 hr 40 min
Elon Justice Story Made Podcast
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Our conversation this week is with Elon Justice - filmmaker, writer, creator of the Appalachian Retelling Project, and child of Pikeville, Kentucky.
"Challenging the narrative of Appalachia - one story at a time." Raised in Eastern Kentucky, Elon heard stories from her family that taught her who she is and where she comes from - and to be proud of it. But she also saw firsthand how negative, steretypical images of her home had the power to cause harm to the people and places she loved. So she decided to do something to change that.
Rooted in co-creation, the Appalachian Retelling Project shares stories that lift unheard voices and give an honest glance into what it means to be from the mountains. The people of Appalachia are tired of others talking about who they are, so this is a space for them to talk back. "Mountains stories, on our own terms" - as they should be told.
In this episode, Elon talks about growing up in Pikeville, the influence of her family, her first recollections of Appalachian stereotypes, moving away for college, her wild and powerful journey to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), why she started the retelling project, co-creation and community-based storytelling, and much more. I hope you listen!
Check out The Appalachian Retelling Project website
and elonjustice.com
Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore:
The Brier Sermon – You Must Be Born Again by Jim Wayne Miller
Pikeville Cut-Through drone video
Hillsville Remembered: Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out by Travis Rountree
Justified on Hulu
John Dils
General William Ratliff
Frank Waller
Effie Waller Smith
The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith
Breaks Interstate Park: The Grand Canyon of the South
BitSource
Beyond Coal: Imagining Appalachia's Future
Diane Sawyer’s Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
Billy Ray Cyrus' trip to Kentucky on American Idol
We're not going to watch 'Hillbilly Elegy', and we hope you won't either
100 Days in Appalachia on the legacy of Deliverance
The Moonshiner (1904)
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow (book, 1954)
The Dollmaker (movie, 1984)
Katerina Cizek
Collective Wisdom - Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice by Katerina Cizek and William Uricchio
Sarah Wolozin
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Hollow - An Interactive Documentary
Our conversation this week is with Elon Justice - filmmaker, writer, creator of the Appalachian Retelling Project, and child of Pikeville, Kentucky.
"Challenging the narrative of Appalachia - one story at a time." Raised in Eastern Kentucky, Elon heard stories from her family that taught her who she is and where she comes from - and to be proud of it. But she also saw firsthand how negative, steretypical images of her home had the power to cause harm to the people and places she loved. So she decided to do something to change that.
Rooted in co-creation, the Appalachian Retelling Project shares stories that lift unheard voices and give an honest glance into what it means to be from the mountains. The people of Appalachia are tired of others talking about who they are, so this is a space for them to talk back. "Mountains stories, on our own terms" - as they should be told.
In this episode, Elon talks about growing up in Pikeville, the influence of her family, her first recollections of Appalachian stereotypes, moving away for college, her wild and powerful journey to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), why she started the retelling project, co-creation and community-based storytelling, and much more. I hope you listen!
Check out The Appalachian Retelling Project website
and elonjustice.com
Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore:
The Brier Sermon – You Must Be Born Again by Jim Wayne Miller
Pikeville Cut-Through drone video
Hillsville Remembered: Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out by Travis Rountree
Justified on Hulu
John Dils
General William Ratliff
Frank Waller
Effie Waller Smith
The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith
Breaks Interstate Park: The Grand Canyon of the South
BitSource
Beyond Coal: Imagining Appalachia's Future
Diane Sawyer’s Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
Billy Ray Cyrus' trip to Kentucky on American Idol
We're not going to watch 'Hillbilly Elegy', and we hope you won't either
100 Days in Appalachia on the legacy of Deliverance
The Moonshiner (1904)
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow (book, 1954)
The Dollmaker (movie, 1984)
Katerina Cizek
Collective Wisdom - Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice by Katerina Cizek and William Uricchio
Sarah Wolozin
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Hollow - An Interactive Documentary
1 hr 40 min