The Curse and the Jubilee (2018)

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.

Released March 13, 2018 26 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.small-town, tmdb.appalachia, tmdb.mining-town, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.appalachian, imdb.fourth-of-july, imdb.curse + 13 more, imdb.klansman, imdb.abandoned, imdb.jubilee, imdb.church-service, imdb.abandoned-mine, imdb.mining-town, imdb.rural-area, imdb.reference-to-robert-sayers-sheffey, imdb.parade, imdb.poverty, imdb.poor-whites, imdb.miners, imdb.fire-truck