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White Lightnin' is a 2009 dramatic film directed by Dominic Murphy and written by Eddy Moretti and Shane Smith. It stars Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson. Inspired by the life of Jesco White, an Appalachian mountain dancer, it was shown at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
The film White Lightnin' (2009) directed by Dominic Murphy is very loosely based on the life of Jesco White Appeared in the Beck video " Loser " Is Ga-Ga-Pee-Pap Cuyler in several episodes of the animated television series Squidbillies
Nitzberg spent eighteen months with the notorious family of Jesco White, documenting their history as dancers, criminals and the impact of the coal mining culture upon them. Shot cinéma vérité style, the film followed four generations of the White family as they flowed in and out of prison and scrambled to get by in rural West Virginia.
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum.
May 5, 2010 · The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia: Directed by Julien Nitzberg. With J. Parker Bazzle II, Big & Rich, Ponty's Camper, Derek Wayne Castle. A year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the "Dancing Outlaw" documentary.
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Jan 19, 2009 · Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum.
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Centers on the life of Appalachian mountain dancer Jesco White, who struggles to overcome poverty, drug abuse, crime and mental instability to become--like his father D Ray White before him--the finest mountain dancer in Appalachia.
