Split Screen Season 2 · Episode 20

Almost Heaven, West Virginia

26th October 1998 29 mins Season 2 Episode 20

Regional filmmaker par excellence, Jacob Young, in his own backyard. Meet an Elvis-channeling schizophrenic tap dancer, a cross-planting evangelical, a cranky chemical plant owner, and a pedophile Swami. Directed by Amy Elliot: we proudly present the filmmaker who to us embodies the true spirit of independent film.

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Season 3 · Episode 1

Run Jesse Ventura, Run

Citizen Jesse: T. J. and Beth Larson show us a local indie film starring Jesse Ventura; 16 mm educational film collector Skip Elsheimer from North Carolina; Doug Stone and P. H. O’Brien chronicle a meeting with Manhattan public-access peeping tom and creep Ugly George and feminist documentarian Maggie Hadleigh-West.

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John Pierson

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