Filmmaker Presents at EV History Center

NORTH ENGLISH – The last English Valleys History Center presentation of the year was held on Nov. 18, hosted by Jacob Glandon of Black Oak Films. Glandon, an English Valleys alumn who graduated from William Penn last year, is a freelance filmmaker. He discussed several projects he had worked on, accompanied by video clips.

Clips were shown from:

• “What Cheer: Coal, Clay and Community,” a documentary about the history of What Cheer Glandon began working on when he was in college, which premiered at the What Cheer Opera House last year.

• “Flotsam,” a documentary about a traveling river circus, who performs on sandbars down the Mississippi River to raise awareness of the problem of garbage in the ocean.

• “Winter Harvest,” a film directed by a former professor of Glandon’s, about the kidnapping of James L. Dozier, an American general who was held captive by the Italian Red Brigades Marxist guerilla group for 42 days before being rescued. Glandon worked as the digital image technician on the film.

Glandon also does work doing drone photography, video production for local businesses, tape digitization, and CD and DVD production. He is currently working on a short film called “Digitized,” which he plans to film in Sigourney and Oskaloosa next spring.