Catherine Pancake is an American filmmaker and musician, based in Baltimore, Maryland since ca. 1993. A native of West Virginia, she is a relative of the writers
Breece D'J PancakeBreece D'J Pancake was an American author of short fiction. Pancake was a native of West Virginia and published several stories in The Atlantic Monthly during his lifetime...
and [Ann Pancake]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann Pancake and actor
Sam PancakeSam Pancake is an American actor raised in Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Sam is the brother of filmmaker Catherine Pancake and writer Ann Pancake. He is a graduate of Hampshire High School...
. Following her move to Baltimore, she co-founded the Red Room Collective and
High ZeroHigh Zero is an annual festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, US starting in 1999, and is one of the largest Free Music festivals in the US, if not the world. It is hosted by the Red Room Collective, a volunteer group that sponsors weekly concerts in...
Foundation, became a self-trained improvising percussionist and began making films, which ranged from short, experimental meditations to feature-length narratives and documentaries.
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Catherine Pancake is an American filmmaker and musician, based in Baltimore, Maryland since ca. 1993. A native of West Virginia, she is a relative of the writers
Breece D'J PancakeBreece D'J Pancake was an American author of short fiction. Pancake was a native of West Virginia and published several stories in The Atlantic Monthly during his lifetime...
and [Ann Pancake]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann Pancake and actor
Sam PancakeSam Pancake is an American actor raised in Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Sam is the brother of filmmaker Catherine Pancake and writer Ann Pancake. He is a graduate of Hampshire High School...
. Following her move to Baltimore, she co-founded the Red Room Collective and
High ZeroHigh Zero is an annual festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, US starting in 1999, and is one of the largest Free Music festivals in the US, if not the world. It is hosted by the Red Room Collective, a volunteer group that sponsors weekly concerts in...
Foundation, became a self-trained improvising percussionist and began making films, which ranged from short, experimental meditations to feature-length narratives and documentaries. She also is a founding member of the Charm City Kitty Club (GLBT Performance Series,) and the Transmodern Festival (Live.Art.Action.)
Since about 2001, her primary project has been a documentary about the
mountaintop removalMountaintop removal mining , often referred to as mountaintop mining , is a form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Entire coal seams are removed from the top of a mountain, hill or ridge by removing the overburden above them, leaving a flat...
project of the coal companies in southern West Virginia and its resulting environmental and humanitarian consequences titled Black Diamonds. Black Diamonds was released by Bull Frog Films for distribution in December, 2006.
Film-and-Videography with Notable Screenings
Released 2006
Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice: DV 72 minutes
Documentary Fortnight - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Feb 2008
Paul Robeson Independent Media Award - 2006
Key to the City - South Charleston, WV - 2006
Spadaro Documentary Award - 2007
Silver Chris Award - Best in Science & Technology Division - Columbus International Film Festival - 2007
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