UPCOMING SCREENINGS
(contact kingcoalfilm@gmail.com for booking)
May 31: Matheson Theater (Mendocino, CA) details
July 13: Shepherdstown Community Club (Shepherdstown, WV) details
July 20: Williston Film Festival (Williston, VT) details

PAST SCREENINGS
Festivals & Non-Theatrical:
Sundance Film Festival
Sun Valley Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
IFF Boston
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
(Special Jury Prize: Feature Documentary)
RiverRun Intl Film Festival
(Jury Prize: Best Cinematography Documentary Feature)
Big Ears Music Festival
DC Environmental Film Festival
Cleveland Intl Film Festival
Annapolis Film Festival
Milwaukee Film Fest
Doc 10 Chicago
DOXA Vancouver
(Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming) 
Seattle Intl Film Fest
(Documentary Competition Special Jury Prize)
DocLands San Rafael
Bentonville Film Festival
Sarasota Film Festival
Flyover Film Festival
(Jury Award: Winner Best Feature Documentary)
Woods Hole Film Festival
New/Next Film Festival
Appalachian Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival
Anderson Island Film Festival
Footcandle Film Festival
(Jury Award: Best Documentary Feature)
MtnCraft Film Festival
Crested Butte Film Festival
(Special Jury Award: Visionary Direction)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Bend Film Festival
The Provincetown Film Society Women’s Week
Virginia Film Festival
Twin Cities Film Festival
Ji.hlava Intl Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
41N Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
American Film Festival (Wrocław, Poland)
Denver Film Festival
Camerimage (Toruń, Poland)
Cucalorus Film Festival
St. Louis International Film Festival
Mesilla Valley Film Society
St Andrews Film Festival (St Andrews, Scotland)
Globe Cinema/CUFF (Calgary, Canada)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
Duke Divinity School(Durham, NC)
Doc Soup Series at Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada)
West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV)
Fairmont State University (Fairmont, WV)
Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC)
Lucid Intervals Arles Film Festival (Arles, France)
Sedona International Film Festival (Sedona, AZ)
Eckerd College Environmental Film Festival (St. Petersburg FL)
Americana Film Fest (Barcelona, Spain)
Harpers Ferry Film Festival (Harpers Ferry, WV)
The Living Arts & Science Center (Lexington, KY)
Redfish Film Festival (Panama City, FL)
Global Education Center (Nashville, TN)
Maryville College (Maryville, TN)
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
International Women's Film Festival (Cologne, Germany)

Theaters:
DCTV Firehouse (New York, NY)
Granada Theater (Bluefield, WV)
Aperture Cinema (Winston-Salem, NC)
O-Cinema (Miami, FL)
Harris Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)
Laemmle Glendale (Los Angeles, CA)
The NightLight (Akron, OH)
Central Cinema (Knoxville, TN)
Wexner Center (Columbus, OH)
Museum of Moving Image (Queens, NY)
The Colonial Theatre (Bethlehem, NH)
The Woodward Cinema (Cincinnati, OH)
Film Independent Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Cinema Art (Rehoboth Beach, DE)
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema (Charleston, WV)
Zoetropolis Cinema (Lancaster, PA)
Sag Harbor Cinema (Sag Harbor, NY)
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema (Charleston, WV)
Raleigh Playhouse & Theater (Beckley, WV)
Kentucky Theater (Lexington, KY)
Cinematique Theater (Daytona Beach, FL)
Darkside Cinema (Corvallis, OR)
The Lyric Theater (Blacksburg, VA)
Belcourt Theatre (Nashville, TN)
The Granada Theater (Bluefield, WV)
The Lindsay Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)
Millwald Theatre (Wytheville, VA)
Roxy Theater (Missoula, MT)
Alamo Drafthouse (Winchester, VA)
Speed Cinema (Louisville, KY)
Historic Star Theater (Berkeley Springs, WV)
Palladium IMAX (San Antonio, TX)
The Cary Theater (Cary, NC)
Douglass Theatre (Macon, GA)
The Neon Theater (Dayton, OH)
Lascaux Micro-Theater (Buckhannon, WV)
Row House Cinema (Pittsburgh, PA)
Gateway Film Center (Columbus, OH)
Cape Ann Cinema (Rockport, ME)
Court Street Theater (Saginaw, MI)
Totnes Cinema (Totnes, UK)
SPACE (Portland, ME) 
Colonial Theater (Phoenixville, PA)
World Theater (Kearney, NE)
State Theatre / curated by Michael Moore (Traverse City, MI)
Amherst Cinema (Amherst, MA)
Vidiots (Los Angeles, CA)
Austin Film Society (Austin, TX)
Athena Cinema (Athens, OH)
The Appalachian Theatre (Boone, NC)
National Archives Theater (Washington, DC)
Capitol Theater (Bowling Green, KY)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Bright Lights Cinema Series (Boston, MA)
Bud Frank Cinema ETSU (Johnson City, TN)
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
Appalachian Center for the Arts (Pikeville, KY)
Asia Society (New York City, NY)



Awards, Nominations, Honors:

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival - Special Jury Prize: Feature Documentary
DOXA - Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming
Seattle International Film Festival - Documentary Competition Special Jury Prize
Flyover Film Festival - Jury Award: Winner Best Feature Documentary
Footcandle Film Festival - Jury Award: Best Documentary Feature
Crested Butte Film Festival - Special Jury Award: Visionary Direction
Woods Hole Film Festival - Best Cinematography Award: Feature Documentary
RiverRun International Film Festival - Special Jury Award for Cinematography in a Documentary Feature
CamerImage Golden Frog Nominee - Best Cinematography Award: Feature Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors Nominee - Best Cinematography Award: Feature Documentary
IDA Awards Nominee - Best Cinematography Award: Feature Documentary
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award: Feature Documentary

JURY AWARD STATEMENTS:

Best Cinematography Award: Feature Documentary
-Woods Hole Film Festival

King Coal is poetry in motion, visually stunning and the use of color and sound transcends traditional documentary filmmaking.

- Seattle International Film Festival, Documentary Competition Special Jury Prize

King Coal offers a nuanced and compassionate insight into a community at the intersection of history and progress. While deeply situated in Central Appalachia, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected. This is a spectacularly beautiful, deeply moving film that reshapes what we think of as documentary film.

- DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming

The jury also recognizes King Coal for its innovative mosaic structure, vivid cinematography, and poignant narration. The film weaves a compelling tapestry of a place and people. A lyrical mediation on a complex history of the role of coal in the past and future of Appalachia.

- Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize Feature Documentary Competition

We are awarding a Special Jury Award for Cinematography for King Coal because of the  spellbinding images that carried the story in such a beautiful and mesmerizing way. The cinematography spoke to the soul of an area that has been dominated by the coal industry.

- RiverRun International Film Festival, Special Jury Award for Cinematography in a Documentary Feature