We are humbled and honored to announce the SE Emmy Award nomination for Our Movement Starts Here in the category of Historical Documentary. We want to thank everyone for their support of the film and to the community in Warren County who actually lived the story this film attempts to document. We stand with this honor only on the shoulders of the tremendous achievement of the community activists who fought for environmental justice in 1982.
Essential viewing for Black History Month! Our Movement Starts Here is a documentary film highlighting the story of the rural community of Warren County in North Carolina that sparked the environmental justice movement in 1982 by fighting the state’s toxic PCB landfill.
* View the film now on PBS Passport via @mypbsnc *
Learn how the environmental justice movement was born in Warren County, NC. Our Movement Starts Here premieres Thursday, August 28 at 9:30 PM on PBS NC and the PBS app.
OMSH is part of a new documentary line up on PBS North Carolina. All films will air on PBS NC as well as stream online and on the FREE PBS app.
Congrats John & Mel!!!
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To celebrate Earth Day we are proud to announce a special Nashville screening of Our Movement Starts Here on Saturday, April 18 at Global Education Center starting at at 4pm. This event includes a community dinner, live reading from poet Thandiwe Shiphrah, and Q&A with filmmaker John Rash. Use the QR code or visit @global.education.center for tickets and information.
We are super excited to bring Our Movement Starts Here to @reptilecantina in Morganton, NC for a one night screening and discussion with director John Rash @documentarypunk Join us at 7:30PM on Wednesday, March 11 for this film that documents how Warren County, North Carolina sparked the environmental justice movement. More info: @ejdocumentary
In Nashville today at @ibffnashville showing Our Movement Starts Here at the beautiful @scarrittbennett Don’t miss out on International Black Film Festival’s powerful weekend of online and offline programs.
Thanks again to @morehousefilmfest for selecting Our Movement Starts Here for the 2025 Human Rights Film Festival. It was a true honor to be here and part of such a powerful program of films!
Photographed: John Rash (co-director) & Consherto Williams (original Warren County community activist)
Join us October 9th at 7pm for the screening of “Our Movement Starts Here” at Hi-Tone Café, in Memphis, TN! Discussion and Q&A with filmmakers John Rash and Melanie Ho will follow. This event is presented by Memphis Community Against Pollution and Tigers Against Pollution. This event is also FREE to attend - we hope to see you there!!
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Couldn’t be more excited to be at @morehousefilmfest screening Our Movement Starts Here. Come see our film on Friday afternoon and an impressive line up of human rights themed programs from today until Saturday. Who do we know in Atlanta????
Thanks to Oglethorpe University for hosting a tremendous screening of Our Movement Starts Here @ejdocumentary and Q&A with co-director John Rash @documentarypunk It was such a lovely night of engaging and thoughtful conversation in a beautiful room on a gorgeous campus! What more could you want?
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Proud to announce Our Movement Starts Here has been selected as a competition film for the 2025 International Black Film Festival. Our screening will be held at noon on Friday, October 3 in Nashville, TN with co-director John Rash in attendance for discussion following the film.
🎞️: @ejdocumentary
🎥: @documentarypunk@dangit_mel
⛪️: @ibffnashville
Join us for a screening of OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE (2024), an award-winning documentary on the environmental justice movement, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker John Rash.
This powerful film tells “the story of a rural community in the American South that inspired the international environmental justice movement and articulated the concept of environmental racism by fighting the state of North Carolina’s toxic landfill” (John Rash).
Refreshments will be provided. Bring a reusable drink container!
RSVP via the link in bio or by scanning the QR code on the flyer.
Photo by Jenny Labalme
