Gabby Wilson and Lanie Marsh in ‘King Coal’ Photo: Curren SheldonThere are fewer than 12,000 coal miners left in West Virginia, but the combination of the value, power and danger of the rock in question means the job retains a mythic quality.
Filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon , a native of the state, has done a breathtakingly expressive job of capturing the strangeness, the beauty and the devastation of her homeland in the poetic, entrancing documentary “King Coal.”
Persons:
Gabby Wilson, Lanie Marsh, Curren Sheldon, Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Organizations:
Coal
Locations:
‘, West Virginia