Category: Moonshine

Documentary filmmaker Kelly L. Riley takes us back to Graham County, North Carolina in Still Making Moonshine to reconnect with homemade hooch producer Jim Tom Hendrick, the subject of his previous documentary, Moonshine (2000). Jim Tom proves to be just as colorful in this feature-length follow-up. While he is very much the same unpretentious character … Continue reading Review of Still Making Moonshine

The subjects of documentaries often prove that real people are more fascinating than any characters that can be fashioned out of the imagination. Jim Tom Hendrick, the focus of Kelly L. Riley’s documentary short Moonshine, is just one of those subjects. An aging denizen of the hills of North Carolina, Jim Tom spends his days … Continue reading Review of Moonshine

Documentary filmmaker Kelly L. Riley returns to the mountains of North Carolina and discovers more than just whiskey being bootlegged. Jim Tom smiths a still from a roll of copper at his creek-side camp. In a dry county thick with prying eyes and tee-totalers, Jim Tom slips around making a run of moonshine. Jerry Jumper … Continue reading Still Making Moonshine

The legendary story of Jim Tom Hedrick and the process of distilling moonshine whiskey from corn mash.  A taste of bootleg whiskey and Jesus, straight from the mountains of North Carolina. 140 proof!  Purchase the 22 minute, NTSC, DVD, here.