CHARLESTON ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” West Virginia Public Broadcasting has announced that its Inside Appalachia Folkways Reporter Zack Harold will have his short film ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œMarble MadnessÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ screened at the 4th annual Boone Docs Film Festival in North Carolina.
HaroldÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s film features a Boone County, West Virginia elementary school and its studentsÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™ favorite pastime, marbles.
According to the film synopsis on the Boone Docs Film Festival website, ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œEvery spring, the students of one elementary school ... still get excited for marbles, a game thatÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s more than a hundred years old. A short drive away, an Ohio River factory is likewise keeping the game alive ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” as the last industrial manufacturer of marbles in the U.S. This is a story about marbles.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œMarble MadnessÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ was also previously featured at the Localization Film Festival in Huntington in early November.
The Boone Docs Film Festival will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Appalachian Theatre in downtown Boone, North Carolina.
Harold is a ninth-generation West Virginian, a former Charleston Daily Mail reporter and the former managing editor of WV Living magazine. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone Country, The Guardian, The New Republic, NPR Music and NPR News.
He joined West Virginia Public Broadcasting as a folkways reporter in 2019 and has since won multiple awards from the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters for his work chronicling West VirginiaÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s culture and traditions.
Harold also had his short film, ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œTradition and Tackle,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ featured in the Mtn Craft Film Festival in October.
About the Boone Docs Film Festival
The Boone Docs Film Festival is a juried film festival that screens short-format documentaries celebrating life in the Appalachian region, providing a platform for stories about the people who call the Appalachian Mountains their home.
The films presented at Boone Docs celebrate the diversity of life and cultures in one of the worldÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s oldest mountain chains.
For more information and to see the entire lineup of films for the 2025 festival, find Boone Docs Film Festival on Facebook.
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