Director Kelly Rundle poses with barn owners Lori and Denny Good after an interview about Farceur, a San Francisco World's Fair Champion Belgian stallion who made the barn his home.
The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival has made The Barn Raisers an Official Selection at this year's event. The new documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films will be showcased at the Collins Road Theatres, 1462 Twixt Town Road, Marion, Iowa on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 11:10 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Ticket information is available at www.crifm.org.
This marks the eighth film festival selection for the award-winning film, which examines the vanishing “country cathedrals” and the mysterious men who built them.
Several Iowa barns are featured in the documentary, including the iconic Tyden No. 6 barn located in Dougherty; Iowa’s oldest barn located in St. Donatus; the barn on the C.G. Good Farm in Ogden where the famous Belgian Stallion Farceur is buried; the Flynn barn at Living History Farms; architect/builder Benton Steele’s last remaining round barn in Iowa, and many others.
Producer Tammy Rundle interviews artist Jeremy Marlow about his restored barn.
“These barns are a part of the history of American immigration,” said artist and barn owner Jeremy Marlow from Waukon, Iowa. “It’s really sad to see these things fall down at an alarming rate.”
In addition to Iowa, The Barn Raisers was filmed in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
The Barn Raisers was an Official Selection at California’s Newport Beach Film Festival, the Beloit International Film Festival, Interrobang Film Festival, Royal Starr Film Festival, Iowa Independent Film Festival, Doc Sunback Film Festival, and was one of three films selected for the Newport Beach Film Festival at Sea—a special feature during a seven day Celebrity Alaskan Cruise.
The Barn Raisers was funded in part by a grant from Humanities Iowa, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Additional grants were awarded to the project by the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.
The Rundles are the producers of twelve award-winning documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 series, Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg (co-produced with Garry McGee), Villisca: Living with a Mystery, and the Emmy® nominated River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS).
To order The Barn Raisers DVD, visit http://www.fourthwallfilms.com/dvds.htm.
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