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Tune in tonight, Tuesday, December 29th at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. on Fourth Wall Films Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Fourth-Wall-Films-173844695995934 for a FREE Wisconsin Humanities screening of The Amish Incident: Wisconsin vs Yoder followed by a Q&A with award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle (The Barn Raisers), and author Shawn Francis Peters (The Yoder Case).
This program is co-sponsored by the Richland County Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Great news! The award-winning documentary The Barn Raisers, produced Emmy-nominated filmmakers Tammy and Kelly Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, will air on Ohio's WGTE-PBS Toledo, Sunday, December 20th at 11 a.m. Do spread the word!
The Barn Raisers tells the true 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.
Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders like Wisconsin round barn builder Alga (Algie) Shivers—a black carpenter who traveled from job to job, and even professional architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. The Barn Raisers paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.
The Barn Raisers was funded in part by Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Wisconsin Humanities, Humanities Iowa, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the Ohio Humanities, the National Barn Alliance, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations.
The Rundles are the producers of twelve award-winning documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway 3-part series, and the Emmy® nominated Becoming Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sons & Daughters of Thunder, Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS).
To order Fourth Wall Films' award-winning The Barn Raisers on DVD, click HERE!