Music & Arts

SAN DIEGO — Backyard Green Films, the production company responsible for a documentary on the famous Carroll County Courthouse shootout, has won The Indie Fest Award of Merit, director Rick Bowman says.


“Hillsville 1912: A Shooting in the Court,” about the gun battle between members of the Allen family and court officials that left five dead and seven wounded, premiered this summer at the Rex Theater in Galax before hitting the film festival circuit.