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Another Official Selection at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

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.

"The Barn Raisers" Among Three Films from Quad Cities Selected at Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

The award-winning documentary The Barn Raisers by Emmy nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films is among three films from the Quad Cities that are Official Selections at the 16^th Annual Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival and will be showcased at the Collins Road Theatres, 1462 Twixt Town Road, Marion, Iowa April 6-7, 2018.   Show times and ticket information are available at www.crifm.org.

Director Kelly Rundle films the Barley House Band as they perform in the Nebergall-Penne Round Barn for The Barn Raisers.

The Barn Raisers is a contender in the Professtional Documentary category.  The crowd-pleasing film tells the fascinating and true story of vintage barns and the mysterious men who built them. Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders who traveled from job to job and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Benton Steele and African American round barn builder Alga Shivers. The Barn Raisers examines barns through the lens of architecture and paints a cinematic portrait of an enduring cultural icon. The film screens on Saturday, April 7 at 11:05 a.m. and at 6:00 p.m.  The Rundles will also take part in a filmmakers panel discussion at 4:00 p.m. representing the documentary genre.

East Meets West: The First Railroad Bridge to Cross the Mississippi River, produced by Heritage Documentaries, Inc. of Moline, Illinois, was selected in the Professional Documentary category as well. The film is directed by Julie Wine Johnston with videography and editing by Denise Hollmer. The documentary tells the story of the bridge that first connected Rock Island to Davenport in 1856, including how Henry Farnam led the effort to build the railroad and the bridge; the dramatic collision with the steamboat Effie Afton just two weeks after the bridge was completed; and Abraham Lincoln's successful defense of the railroad's right to cross the river in the trial that followed. The bridge was not only a symbol of conflict but a crucial link to the transcontinental railroad and settlement of the West. Both locally and nationally, its historic importance cannot be overstated. East Meets West screens Friday, April 6 at 8:56 p.m. and on Saturday, April 7 at 1:30 p.m.

Someone Else’s Hero, a heartfelt film about a woman coping with the loss of her son in the Iraq war, was directed by Stephen Folker of Folker Films in Davenport, Iowa, written by Beth Hinde, and stars Quad City actress Lora Adams (WQPT/Black Box Theatre).  The 20-minute film screens on Friday, April 6 at 9:07 p.m. and on Saturday, April 7 at 12:11 p.m. It is an official selection in the Professional Short category.

An award ceremony will be held on Saturday evening at 9:20 p.m. and the winners of the festival’s Eddy Awards will be announced.

Encore Screening of "The Barn Raisers" at BIFF Sunday, March 4!

The award-winning documentary THE BARN RAISERS by Emmy-nominated filmmakers Kelly & Tammy Rundle will have an encore screening at the Beloit International Film Festival on Oscar Sunday March 4, 2018, 12:00pm at the Beloit Public Library screening room, 605 Eclipse Boulevard Beloit, Wisconsin!

The one-hour film and Q&A with the filmmakers will be done in plenty of time to catch the red carpet and Oscar parties! 

We strongly recommend that you reserve your tickets at https://beloitfilmfest.org/films/barn-raisers.

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