<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3dKoJp_18arkdzP00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3dKoJp_18arkdzP00" width="1600" height="900" ><figcaption>Letcher Funeral Home (Letcher Funeral Home)</figcaption></figure>WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - A well-known Appalshop filmmaker in Letcher County has died.Elizabeth Banks Barret died Tuesday at her home.Barret grew up in Hazard and after graduating from the University of Kentucky, she began working as a filmmaker at Appalshop, a media arts center in Whitesburg.She earned several awards and was also the founding director of the Appalshop Archive.Possibly her most famous documentary is “Stranger with a Camera,” which looked at the 1967 shooting death of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor in Letcher County.Barret’s funeral will be Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Letcher Funeral Home.You can see her full obituary here.Elizabeth Barret was 74.</div></body>

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WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - A well-known Appalshop filmmaker in Letcher County has died. Elizabeth Banks Barret died Tuesday at her home. Barret grew up in Hazard and after graduating from the University of Kentucky, she began working as a filmmaker at Appalshop, a media arts center in Whitesburg. She earned...

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WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - A well-known Appalshop filmmaker in Letcher County has died. Elizabeth Banks Barret died Tuesday at her home. Barret grew up in Ha

Well-known Appalachian filmmaker dies

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