Tijah Bumgarner

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.

Meadow Bridge is a coming-of-age story that follows Darcy, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in a small West Virginia town in the late 1990s. It's a story about growing up on the edge of poverty and possibility - about trying to reach out into the bigger world, while wrestling with where you're from.

A woman goes missing, forcing her husband, daughter and sister to face what they've each overlooked.

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life of sobriety. Weaving together moments of glee, fulfillment, acceptance, sorrow, and disappointment, this documentary takes an intimate look at the bonds that hold one family together and a disease that threatens to tear them apart.

An intimate portrait of life in Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the world's most sensitive radio telescope and the only U.S. town where Wi-Fi and cell phones are banned. In this radio-quiet community, scientists search for signs of extraterrestrial life while residents share everyday moments of joy and loss. But when government defunding threatens the telescope's future, the town must consider which connections matter most.

By day, a chef drowns his demons in the searing heat of the kitchen. By night, a DJ seeks escape in the pulsing thrum of techno. as these worlds bleed into a fractured reality, he must confront the abyss within him before it consumes him.

A holiday-hating executive visits the local branch on the day of the Christmas party for an evaluation. In an effort to prevent him from ruining everyone’s Christmas, his ghosts of past, present, and future convince him there may be more to Christmas than he thought.

A pizza boy must become a pizza man...

Her Hope Haven is a comedy-drama about a group of women working the steps toward their sobriety. Set in a women’s inpatient recovery center in Charleston, WV, Her Hope Haven is a place where women are given a chance to get their kids back, their dignity back, stay out of jail, and stay alive. Their stories are more complex than only their addiction. Against the odds of societal expectations and the money-making business of recovery, the women seek redemption through small stories of levity, euphoria, and heartbreak. The women persevere through working together, and at times against one another, to keep their sobriety as they build bonds with one another during the hardest time of their lives.

After dating for eight years, best friends Jordan and Danny have broken up and no one knows why. It is clear they still love each other, but they are not willing to admit it to each other. When Jordan realizes she is pregnant and Danny has a violent outburst in Jordan’s honor, she has to confront not only her feelings but Danny’s too, finally being honest with each other.

In a forgotten time and a forgotten place, a` young farmhand cares for his ailing and overbearing master with seemingly nowhere else to go.

Raised in a strict catholic home, Charlotte is haunted by guilt after losing her virginity, symobolized by a recurring scarlett stain that invades her daily life. As visions of dark angels blur the line of reality, she isolates herself from her best friend and clashes with her overbearing mother. In a moment of desperation, Charlotte confesses, transferring the burden of shame onto her mother.

Soon after graduating college, a young student finds himself in the devastating career of Corporate Customer Service at a Candy Taffy Company.