Appalshop

Appalshop is a media, arts, and education center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in the heart of the southern Appalachian region of the United States.

[2] In 1974 they incorporated into a nonprofit company, under the name Appalshop, and established itself as a hub of filmmaking in Appalachia, and since that time has produced more than one hundred films, covering such subjects as coal mining, the environment, traditional culture, and the economy.

[7][better source needed] In July 2015, Appalshop was awarded $450,000 by ArtPlace America,[8] which provided funding for increasing arts and technology training.

The grants will help develop a certificate program at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College campuses in Letcher focusing on information technology and media production.

[10] In 1990, Appalshop documentary producer Anne Lewis won the Alfred I. du Pont Award for Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University.