Lowertown Paducah
Paducah, Kentucky is a charming river town in the heart of America. Its LowerTown district is a place where artists from all over the country moved into beautiful old houses, revitalizing a troubled neighborhood with the largest Artist Relocation Program ever. From an egg carver, to a print maker, to an art quilt master, this documentary combines artist profiles with interviews and archival photos to explore city history and the tradition of quilting in America. Lush cinematography meets a diverse music score by composer/performer Josh Coffey (of “Bawn in the Mash”) in this one-hour documentary, an early work of award-winning filmmaker H. Paul Moon.
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H. Paul MoonDirector
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Josh CoffeyComposer
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Project Type:Documentary, Feature
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Genres:Documentary
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Runtime:1 hour
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Completion Date:December 25, 2013
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Production Budget:1,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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River's Edge Film FestivalPaducah, Kentucky
November 3, 2012
World Premiere -
Louisville's International Festival of FilmsLouisville, Kentucky
October 11, 2013 -
Queen City Film FestivalCumberland, Maryland
October 4, 2014
Maryland Premiere
Audience Award, Feature Category -
Smoky Mountain Film FestivalGatlinsburg, Tennessee
United States
May 22, 2015
Tennessee Premiere -
Artcroft Film and Video FestivalParis, Kentucky
United States
September 10, 2016
Best Kentucky Film
H. Paul Moon is a filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on music and visual art profiles. He also creates experimental films of cities, landscapes and contemporary dance. He teaches courses on documentary editing to emerging filmmakers, and manages a network of online communities at focuspulling.com that keeps pace with new camera technologies. His body of work includes short and feature-length documentaries, dance films, and experimental cinema, regularly featured at film festivals worldwide. He worked as a small camera specialist for a Paramount feature film starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and as cinematographer for director Josephine Decker’s film in "collective:unconscious" that debuted at this year’s South by Southwest Festival. Recent films include "Sitka: A Piano Documentary," about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, and "Quartet for the End of Time," about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent wartime composition. He has just completed a feature-length documentary about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber, and is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western folklife, cowboy poetry, and the American frontier.