Black Diamonds, a film by West Virginian Catherine Pancake follows the dramatic story of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.

Every day, MTR uses nearly four million pounds of explosives are used to blow up the mountaintops of West Virginia; the blasted mountaintops are pushed into adjoining valleys creating "valley fills;" essentially, the resting place of 20% of West Virginia's mountaintops. Thick seams of low sulfur coal is the goal that lies beneath. More than 4000 valley fills in West Virginia alone have buried over 1200 hundred miles of vital headwater streams -- the source of the southeastern United States' drinking water. This is Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal mining.

Three members of the affected Appalachian mountain communities will be present for a Q&A after the screening. Ticket sales will benefit Coal River Mountain Watch, a local community group standing up to coal mining atrocities in WV.