Award-winning filmmakers Kelly & Tammy Rundle (center) accept a check for $2,500 from Executive Director Mary Jo Gothard (right) for "The Barn Raisers" film project from the Community Foundation of Jackson County. The fiscal sponsor for the grant is the Jackson County Historical Society represented by Caroline Bredekamp.
Filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, through their fiscal sponsor The Jackson County Historical Society, received a grant award of $2,500 from the Community Foundation of Jackson County for their historical documentary The Barn Raisers. The grant will be used for production film-work in Jackson County, Iowa.
"We are grateful to the Community Foundation of Jackson County and the board for awarding a grant to our historical documentary The Barn Raisers," said producer Tammy Rundle. "We are looking forward to returning to Jackson County this fall to film a number of the magnificent barns in the area."
The Barn Raisers will paint a cinematic portrait of barns and builders and remind us that these remnants from America's rural past are still here to be appreciated and experienced.
The Rundles received a regional Emmy® nomination for the documentary Country School: One Room - One Nation, and filmed in Jackson County for the project. The restored North Bend Community Center in Spragueville, Iowa was featured in the film. The Barn Raisers project is a companion piece to Country School.
In addition to the Community Foundation of Jackson County, The Barn Raisers has also been funded in part by grants from Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area (National Park Service), Humanities Iowa, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network and the National Barn Alliance. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in The Barn Raisers do not necessarily represent those of these organizations.
Fourth Wall Films is an award-winning independent film and video production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois. To view a catalog of Fourth Wall Films' award-winning films, click HERE.
For more information about how you can support the documentary The Barn Raisers visit Barnmovie.com.
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