Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Place of birthAbingdon, Virginia, USA
Known credits16
Biography
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated, Peabody-winning, and two-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker from Logan County, West Virginia. Her films explore life in Appalachia through personal and political lenses, covering topics such as coal’s cultural legacy, the opioid crisis, rural deindustrialization, incarceration, and environmental justice. Her latest feature documentary, KING COAL, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick and one of the year’s best documentaries by Esquire and Marie Claire. The film screened at over 40 …
Beat Down
2024 · Producer
Troublesome Creek
2023 · Additional Camera
Troublesome Creek
2023 · Co-Producer
King Coal
2023 · Narrator (voice)
King Coal
2023 · Writer
King Coal
2023 · Director
King Coal
2023 · Producer
King Coal
2023 · Co-Editor
King Coal
2023 · Additional Camera
King Coal
2023 · Boom Operator
My Love: Six Stories of True Love
2021 · Director
Tutwiler
2019 · Producer
Tutwiler
2019 · Director
Tutwiler
2019 · Editor
Tutwiler
2019 · Director of Photography
Coal's Deadly Dust
2019 · Writer
Coal's Deadly Dust
2019 · Director
Coal's Deadly Dust
2019 · Producer
Recovery Boys
2018 · Producer
Recovery Boys
2018 · Director
Phantom Cowboys
2018 · Additional Photography
11/8/16
2017 · Director
Heroin(e)
2017 · Director
Heroin(e)
2017 · Producer
TIMBERLINE
2017 · Director
West Virginia, Still Home
2013 · Editor
West Virginia, Still Home
2013 · Producer
West Virginia, Still Home
2013 · Director
The Elders
2013 · Production Coordinator
Hollow
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Hollow
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Hollow
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Hollow
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Hollow
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Mother Jones
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The Ascent
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