Mark your calendars now for a red-carpet premiere on Jan 10th at the Baxter! More details about the event to come...

Writer-Director Eddie Mensore’s second film HAZARD is set during the opioid crisis, in the mining town of Hazard plagued by widespread drug usage, which ranges from legitimate pain management to recreational highs. Will (played remarkably by Alex Roe, a British actor who could fool any Kentuckian with his local eastern Kentucky accent) is a reluctant drug dealer who wants to reunite with his son and wife Sara (Sosie Bacon who, along with Alex, should see some awards recognition for her role). Will can’t, however, break the cycle of addiction tearing his family apart. As tensions escalate within the community, Will is either going to succumb to his own addiction or succeed in rescuing his family before it’s too late.

While titled HAZARD, the film was actually shot “a coupla hollers over,” in Harlan County (famous for its eponymous Oscar winning documentary “Harlan County USA”). HAZARD hits Louisville’s Baxter Avenue Theaters and thirty screens all over Appalachia in January.