
One-room school re-enactment in Taylor #4 in Marshalltown, Iowa.
One-Room School Film Receives Funding for Editing
MOLINE, IL - Award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films have received another major media grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities for their new historical documentary feature film project Country School: One Room - One Nation. The fiscal sponsor for the grant is the Greater Quad Cities Telecommunications Corporation (WQPT-PBS) in Moline, Illinois.
The grant will fund a portion of the cost of post-production work on the project and a public showing of the finished film. The documentary project previously received grants for production from Humanities Iowa, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Kansas Humanities Council, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
“We are grateful to Humanities Iowa for its continued support for this important documentary,” said Producer Kelly Rundle.
Country schools took rough-hewn pioneers and multilingual immigrants and transformed them into a literate and patriotic new nation. The documentary will tell the dramatic true story of Midwestern one-room schools and their impact yesterday and today.
The film will feature a who’s who of country school scholars, former teachers and students, and nearly 50 Midwestern one-room schoolhouses. Country School: One Room, One Nation is slated for completion in the summer of 2010.
Humanities Iowa is the only non-profit organization in Iowa committed to bringing the humanities to life and to the public through interactive programming, publications, and events.
The Rundles previously produced the award-winning films Lost Nation: The Ioway and Villisca: Living with a Mystery. Fourth Wall Films is an independent film and video production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois.