The Curse and the Jubilee
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26mins
Directed by
Francisco Maldonado,
Ivete Lucas,
David Keenan,
An intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the town as it prepares for the annual Jubilee, a wild 4th of July celebration where families and neighbors let loose and triumph over daily hardships, industrial abandonment, and race.