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Leper of Pickens documentary film to be featured in WV FILMmakers Festival Oct. 1

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Last spring, COHP social work faculty member Dr. Peggy Harman and her husband, Jason, spent nine months filming and editing the documentary “George Rashid: The Leper of Pickens.”

Now, the story of George Rashid, a young Lebanese/Syrian man who was ostracized for the lesions on his skin, will be told at the West Virginia FILMmakers Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1. The film is in the Short Documentary Category.

Learn more here.

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