Directing
Tijah Bumgarner
West Virginia, USA
Tijah Bumgarner is an American filmmaker and professor from West Virginia.
Acting credits
6.0A woman goes missing, forcing her husband, daughter and sister to face what they've each overlooked.
Departure
2019
NRRaised in a strict catholic home, Charlotte is haunted by guilt after losing her virginity, symobolized by a recurring scarlett stain that invades her daily life. As visions of dark angels blur the line of reality, she isolates herself from her best friend and clashes with her overbearing mother. In a moment of desperation, Charlotte confesses, transferring the burden of shame onto her mother.
Between Spaces
2025
NRAfter dating for eight years, best friends Jordan and Danny have broken up and no one knows why. It is clear they still love each other, but they are not willing to admit it to each other. When Jordan realizes she is pregnant and Danny has a violent outburst in Jordan’s honor, she has to confront not only her feelings but Danny’s too, finally being honest with each other.
In Light of the Tears
2024
Behind the camera
NRExamines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life of sobriety. Weaving together moments of glee, fulfillment, acceptance, sorrow, and disappointment, this documentary takes an intimate look at the bonds that hold one family together and a disease that threatens to tear them apart.
Picture Proof
2023
NRMeadow Bridge is a coming-of-age story that follows Darcy, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in a small West Virginia town in the late 1990s. It's a story about growing up on the edge of poverty and possibility - about trying to reach out into the bigger world, while wrestling with where you're from.
Meadow Bridge
2017
NRMeadow Bridge is a coming-of-age story that follows Darcy, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in a small West Virginia town in the late 1990s. It's a story about growing up on the edge of poverty and possibility - about trying to reach out into the bigger world, while wrestling with where you're from.
Meadow Bridge
2017
NRIn a forgotten time and a forgotten place, a` young farmhand cares for his ailing and overbearing master with seemingly nowhere else to go.
Fin de Partie
2022
NRHer Hope Haven is a comedy-drama about a group of women working the steps toward their sobriety. Set in a women’s inpatient recovery center in Charleston, WV, Her Hope Haven is a place where women are given a chance to get their kids back, their dignity back, stay out of jail, and stay alive. Their stories are more complex than only their addiction. Against the odds of societal expectations and the money-making business of recovery, the women seek redemption through small stories of levity, euphoria, and heartbreak. The women persevere through working together, and at times against one another, to keep their sobriety as they build bonds with one another during the hardest time of their lives.
Her Hope Haven
2022
NRHer Hope Haven is a comedy-drama about a group of women working the steps toward their sobriety. Set in a women’s inpatient recovery center in Charleston, WV, Her Hope Haven is a place where women are given a chance to get their kids back, their dignity back, stay out of jail, and stay alive. Their stories are more complex than only their addiction. Against the odds of societal expectations and the money-making business of recovery, the women seek redemption through small stories of levity, euphoria, and heartbreak. The women persevere through working together, and at times against one another, to keep their sobriety as they build bonds with one another during the hardest time of their lives.
Her Hope Haven
2022