Academy Award–winning producer Thomas Lennon teams with Ohio filmmaker Laura Paglin for the world premiere of their new documentary THIS IS PIKE COUNTY at the Red Rock Film Festival in Cedar City.
Screenings are set for Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8:15 p.m. and Friday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. at the Frontier Homestead Theater.
Initially drawn by the notorious Pike County, Ohio, family murders, Paglin spent several years filming the quieter but equally gripping story of a rural community confronting economic decline, environmental pressures, and generational change.
The result is, in the words of New York Times–bestselling author Arlie Hochschild (Strangers in Their Own Land), “haunting, quietly searing, hard to forget.”
Director Laura Paglin will attend both screenings for an audience Q&A.