Emmy-nominated Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films will join host Tazz Hines on WQUD-FM 107.7 Vintage Radio on Saturday, March 2 at 5PM. The hour-long program will cover the Rundles' documentary filmwork while in Los Angeles and the Quad Cities, and their ten-year journey on the docudrama Sons & Daughters of Thunder, which premieres at on the Putnam Giant Screen on Saturday, March 16 at 6:30PM. Advance tickets recommended at Putnam.org/Calendar.
Tazz Hines sits next to Thunder stars Daniel Rairden-Hale (Calvin Stowe) and Jess Taylor (Harriet Beecher Stowe) during filming at the Karpeles Museum in Rock Island.
Sons & Daughters of Thunder is based on a play by Earlene Hawley and Curtis Heeter and tells the true story of the 1834 Lane Seminary anti-slavery debates. Organized by Theodore Weld, one of the architects of the abolitionist movement, the shocking oratory sparked intense controversy and awakened a young Harriet Beecher (Stowe) to the horrors of slavery. Beecher-Stowe went on to pen “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The novel changed American public opinion in favor of abolition.
Don Hazon far right in Sons & Daughters of Thunder.
Thunder was filmed at historic sites in Rock Island, Sterling and Andover, Illinois, and in Cincinnati Ohio. The film stars Thomas Alan Taylor (Weld), Jessica Taylor (Beecher), Janos Horvath (Harriet’s father, Lyman Beecher) and Kimberly Kurtenbach (Katharine Beecher) and actors from the Quad Cities area, Los Angeles and Chicago. WQUD's Tazz Hines and Don Hazon make appearances in the film.
Fourth Wall Films is an award-winning, Regional-Emmy nominated independent media production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois.
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