Hillbilly

In this award-winning film, directors Ashley York (Tig) and Sally Rubin (Deep Down, Mama Has a Mustache) use a combination of personal narrative, regional history, and conversations with Appalachians ranging from York's grandmother to scholar bell hooks to challenge pervasive perceptions of Appalachia.The film won a London Foreign Press Award as well as the Grand Jury Documentary Prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival and screened at DOC NYC and at the Heartland, Nashville, and Traverse City Film Festival where it won Michael Moore's Founders Award for Best Documentary. It is an Official Selection of the American Film Showcase.

The film was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and the West Virginia Humanities Council, and filmed in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and California.