“The Barn Raisers” is Official Selection at Borrego Springs Film Festival in California

The Barn Raisers, the award-winning documentary by Moline-based filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, is an Official Selection at the 2019 Borrego Springs Film Festival in southern California held January 17-21.

The crowd-pleasing film will screen on Sunday, January 20 during the 1:00 p.m. film block at the Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center, 590 Palm Canyon Dr, Borrego Springs, California.

“The Borrego Springs Film Festival is a young and popular Southern California juried film festival that is placed in one of the most beautiful and unique locations in the United States.  Surrounded by 640,000 acres of Anza Borrego Desert State Park, this natural beauty has long attracted tourists and filmmakers,” the website states.

Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center hosts the 2019 Borrego Springs Film Festival each year.

“We are very pleased that The Barn Raisers continues to draw interest from film festivals and audiences all over the country,” said producer Tammy Rundle.  “The film previously appeared in the Newport Beach Film Festival in California.”

The Barn Raisers tells the story of barns in the Midwest by examining them through the lens of architecture.  The film explores what building methods, barn styles, and materials tell us about the people who built them, the life they lived, and the role these “country cathedrals” played in the settling and building of the Nation.  The Barn Raisers is a companion film to the Rundles’ Emmy® nominated historical documentary Country School: One Room – One Nation.

 

The Barn Raisers received a Telly Award and was an Official Selection at the Beloit International Film Festival, the Interrobang Film Festival, the Royal Starr Film Festival, the Doc Sunback Film Festival, and won awards at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, and the Iowa Independent Film Festival.

 

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from humanities councils in Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin and Ohio; Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.  The Moline Foundation was a fiscal sponsor for the project.

 

The Rundles are the producers of a dozen award-winning documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway series, and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street.

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