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Community Consecration of Historic Site in Turkey Creek

Those who know my film Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek will be interested to know that there’s an event on Dec. 8, 2019 involving the award of a half million dollar grant from the National Park Service to restore an historic structure in Turkey Creek. The NPS program is aimed at highlighting “stories […]

Come Hell or High Water used in teacher institute

A teacher institute featured Come Hell or High Water and other key films on the freedom struggle in Mississippi (Crossposted from Teaching for Change. For the full article, go here http://www.teachingforchange.org/summer-institute-2017) In July 2017, fifteen middle and high school English and social studies teachers from across the state of Mississippi participated in a teaching institute […]

A year in the life of “Come Hell or High Water”

2015 was a year of long-anticipated milestones for Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek (the 10th anniversary of Katrina, the 5th anniversary of the BP disaster, and the UN conference on climate change), but it was also a year of the unexpected, with film tours of North Carolina and Indonesia and […]

Come Hell or High Water report from Indonesia

Cross-posted from ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com In April Leah Mahan traveled to Indonesia as a Film Envoy with the American Film Showcase to share Come Hell or High Water and lead discussions and workshops with students, environmentalists, journalists and filmmakers. Her post on the trip is here and there are a few additional photos here and many more […]

NC Environmental Justice Film Tour – From Witness To Action

Cross-posted from ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com “Don’t watch the film and consume their pain. Don’t let it stop there. How dare we ask them to carry this burden … We have to stand up. None of this ‘I saw the movie. It was wonderful.’ … What are we going to do? Because it is us as a society. We […]

Come Hell or High Water – December broadcast, Facing Race and Bay Area events

Festival goers in D.C. snow (Photo by Lolita Parker, Jr., 2014) Cross-posted from ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek will air again on Dec. 16 and stream until Jan. 15. November events include a screening and workshop at Facing Race and three San Francisco Bay Area screenings celebrating the Sierra Club’s presentation of the Robert Bullard […]