KELLY RUNDLE - Producer, Writer, Director
The producer-director-writer of Sons & Daughters of Thunder is award winning documentary filmmaker Kelly Rundle. He has been producing, directing and editing documentaries and other media projects for 20 years. Kelly was born in Wisconsin and grew up in the Quad-Cities, Illinois. He graduated with honors from Park University in Kansas City, Missouri. Along with his wife Tammy, he is the recipient of numerous humanities and other grant awards for media projects.
Kelly is the producer-director-writer-editor of the award winning and critically acclaimed documentary feature film Villisca: Living with a Mystery. Villisca spent 15 months in theaters in 60 cities and won Best Documentary at the 2006 CRI Film Festival. Villisca received an Honorable Mention in New York City's Rural Route Film Festival and was an official selection at numerous film festivals. Villisca also competed in the 2005 Academy Award® competition in the Documentary Feature Film category. Villisca was a hit with both audiences and film critics.
Kelly is also the producer-writer-director of the award winning and critically acclaimed Lost Nation: The Ioway (details below). Kelly previously worked in the international theatrical division of Sony Pictures Entertainment and in advertising for Deutsch LA. The Rundles' Fourth Wall Films was based in Los Angeles for 18 years.
In addition to completing Country School: One Room - One Nation (2010) the Rundles are coproducing Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg for release in 2011. They are also developing several other historical documentary projects including Douglass: The Storm, The Whirlwind, The Earthquake and Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3.
TAMMY RUNDLE - Producer, Writer
The producer-writer of Sons & Daughters of Thunder is award winning documentary filmmaker Tammy Rundle. She has been producing and writing documentaries and other media projects for over 15 years. Tammy is an Iowa native and graduated with honors from Park University in Kansas City, Missouri. Along with her husband Kelly, she is the recipient of numerous humanities awards and other grants for media projects.
She is the producer-writer of Villisca: Living with a Mystery (details above) and Lost Nation: The Ioway. Ioway has been shown over 100 times in 70 cities since its premiere in October 2007. The Des Moines twin premiere events drew nearly 200 Ioway people from both tribes making it the largest gathering of Ioway people in the state since their removal in 1837. It was also the largest gathering of members of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska since they split in 1887.
Lost Nation: The Ioway won Best Documentary at the 2008 CRI Film Festival, the 2008 Iowa Independent Film Festival. It also placed second in the Beloit International Film Festival among 40 documentaries. Ioway won a Bronze Telly Award® for "Outstanding Achievement in a Television Documentary," Best Multi-Cultural Documentary in the 2008 International Cherokee Film Festival, and Honorable Mention in the Archaeology Channel Film Festival.
Lost Nation: The Ioway was an official selection in numerous film festivals and both the theatrical and the DVD versions of the film received outstanding reviews.
In addition to her work on Country School: One Room - One Nation and Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg, Tammy is developing a 1949 sit-down strike civil rights story documentary.
