Kelly and Tammy Rundle's award-winning film The Barn Raisers will air on WQPT-PBS on Thursday, October 1 at 8:00 p.m.
“We are always grateful and honored to have our films showcased on WQPT-PBS,” said producer Kelly Rundle of Fourth Wall Films.
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 feels like a hymn to the solemn beauty and importance of these buildings, and the Rundles treat them with the reverence they deserve...” wrote Jonathan Turner, film reviewer for the Dispatch-Argus.
Linda Cook, film critic for the Quad City Times gave the film 4-out-of-4 Stars and wrote: "Great documentaries, like this one, entertain, teach us about the human condition and help us see the world in a different way."
The Rundles are currently in post-production on An Infantryman from Hero Street, the fourth film in their Hero Street documentary series. They are completing a museum film for Forest Grove School No. 5 and a short documentary on Wildlife Crossings for BeWild ReWild and the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.
The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Humanities Iowa, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the Ohio Humanities Council, the National Barn Alliance, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.
The fiscal sponsors for the film project are Friends of Ohio Barns, the Kansas Barn Alliance, KPTS-PBS, and the Jackson County Historical Society.
The Rundles are the producers of the regional Emmy® nominated historical documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS).
To ORDER the DVD of The Barn Raisers, click here: https://fourthwallfilms.com/dvds.htm.