A Beast Touch the Mountain

Documentary • Unrated • Directed by: James Mottern • 78 minutes

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. Filmed throughout the hauntingly beautiful Appalachian Mountains, A Beast Touch the Mountain is a testament to American grit, and a document of the greed of the American political system.