A group of Appalachian women in Bent Mountain, Virginia fought for a decade to protect their land and their way of life against a greedy and corrupt fossil fuel pipeline. The fight gets tougher and more violent as mysterious shell company Mountain Valley Pipeline gets a laid-out-in-law go-ahead from Joe Manchin to put pipe in the ground.
Mountain Valley Pipeline and the fight for Appalachia
About the film
Shot over the course of a year in Bent Mountain, Virginia, A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN follows a band of Appalachian women in Bent Mountain, Virginia in their decade-long fight to protect their land and way of life against a greedy and corrupt natural gas pipeline corporation that threatens the environment and the lives of tens of thousands throughout Virginia and West Virginia.
Director James Mottern is an award-winning screenwriter and director, originally from Virginia. After spending several decades in the Los Angeles indie film world, the Bent Mountain pipeline was brought to his attention by producer Diana Harrington, and Mottern was captivated by the story of women in Southwest Virginia, who, with the help of hundreds of others throughout Appalachia, had fought off a pipeline for a decade with little experience and few resources.
