Kaleem Aftab Some directors can take years finding the right subject for their documentary, but in the case of “The Last Hillbilly” filmmakers Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe, theirs just walked up and introduced himself.
The French director couple from Lille were eating in a fast-food restaurant in 2013 while scoping out Kentucky as a potential location when they were approached by a local man named Brian Ritchie. “He came up to us because he heard us speaking French,” recalls Jenkoe. “He said he wanted to take us to ‘the true Kentucky,’ as he called it—the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky.”“It was a friendship relationship first,” says Bouzgarrou. “Then we got really passionate about finding out what being a hillbilly means.
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