An Oneonta filmmaker's 10-year dream of putting her father's mining tales into a movie will be realized next month, when "Switchback" starts filming in Essex County. From the Daily Star:
Co-producers Joel Plue and Lori Kelly-Bailey, his mother, have been working on ``Switchback,'' a proposal previously called ``Mineville,'' for at least 10 years. The drama, written by Kelly-Bailey, is about immigrant iron-ore mine workers in upstate New York at the turn of the 19th century. The story tells of the early life of Kelly-Bailey's father, Richard Kelly, who worked in the mines and later founded KMS Plastics in Oneonta, Plue said. Her father lives in Glens Falls, Kelly-Bailey said, and she and Plue are in upstate on location finalizing music, costume, work sites and other production arrangements.
The Plattsburgh Press-Republican has more on the filming plans.
