Folkstreams

Date
20 January 2011

Folkstreams is a “national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures […] a ‘cultural preserve’ as a kind of national park of intellectual property is an important one for our times”. Independent filmmakers turned a documentary eye on the experts of culture, art and struggles of the american folk – these locals, the ‘talking heads’, are as fascinating and real as it gets. Grandma’s Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey was the incredible story that introduced it to us but you could start with anything on here and call it a day till you’ve seen them all.

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Bryony Quinn

Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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