Capacity crowds are not unusual for The Barn Raisers screening events. This premiere sold out at the Putnam Museum's Giant Screen in Davenport, Iowa.
The award-winning documentary The Barn Raisers, by Emmy-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, will screen on Thursday, June 9th to a sold out crowd at the Black Hawk College's Lifelong Learning Lunch held at the Botanical Center in Rock Island, Illinois.
The crowd-pleasing film 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 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 Rundles are the producers of the regional Emmy® award-winning documentary Over and Under: Wildlife Crossings and the Emmy® nominated historical documentaries Becoming Harriet Beecher Stowe, 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).
Order the award-winning The Barn Raisers on DVD HERE!