This is Pike County

Runtime: 01:18:00

This is Pike County: Trailer

Mounting pressures – including an unsolved family murder – test a close-knit rural community. Between the temptation to give up and the urge to hold on, the film lingers on what it means to come of age in a place left behind. “Haunting, quietly searing, hard to forget.” - Arlie Hochschild, Author, Strangers in Their Own Land

A boy and a girl standing outside in a neighborhood, looking serious or contemplative. The boy is wearing a green T-shirt with a Minions graphic, and the girl is wearing a yellow dress. The background shows houses, trees, and a street. There's a quote at the top that reads, 'Haunting, quietly searing, hard to forget,' and text at the bottom indicating it's a promotional poster for the film 'Pike County.'

Director - Laura Paglin

A woman with short, curly brown hair, smiling in front of a backdrop with text including 'Greenwich' and 'International'.

Laura Paglin is a documentary filmmaker whose more recent films have dealt specifically with struggles of marginalized communities. No Umbrella – Election Day in the City, which brings us a street level view of election day chaos as it played out in one inner city poling location, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. Facing Forward: A Student’s Story, which follows a charismatic but troubled teenager at a strict new inner city charter school, aired nationally on PBS. Paglin’s Unseen, tells the complex and horrific story of the Anthony Sowell serial murders that were discovered in Cleveland, Ohio in 2009. Distributed by Filmrise, Unseen has become one of the more popular true crime documentaries on Amazon Prime, having made it to many “best of” lists.