{"id":469538,"date":"2020-02-24T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=469538"},"modified":"2020-02-24T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T17:20:01","slug":"documentary-on-kentuckys-eastern-cemetery-releases-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/documentary-on-kentuckys-eastern-cemetery-releases-next-month_469538.html","title":{"rendered":"Documentary on Kentucky’s Eastern Cemetery releases next month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A scene from “Facing East”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The film is directed by local Tommy Baker<\/div>\n

A new documentary about the Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky will be released next month.<\/p>\n

Directed by Tommy Baker, “Facing East” is a chilling and unarguably confronting film that exposes a graveyard that re-uses graves over and over.<\/p>\n

The owners and operators systemtically re-used graves and over, taking advantage of low-income families during one of the most difficult times in their lives.<\/p>\n

25 years later, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery was formed to provide care and upkeep that the burial grounds desperately needed.<\/p>\n

The film, out March 17 from Uncork’d Entertainment, has been in the works for quite some time. It will be released on DVD and Digital across North America.<\/p>\n

Eastern Cemetery is a 177 year old grave yard in the historic district of Louisville, Kentucky.  Abandoned in 1992, three years after allegations came anonymously of over-burial and extortion. <\/p>\n

Eastern Cemetery and the departed which inhabit it’s grounds have been defiled, vandalized, and used as a playground for intoxicated young people since. <\/p>\n