Thunder actors Don Denton and Justin Marxen will attend the Sterling Benefit Event April 18.
Nearly one dozen of the stars who appear in the new Fourth Wall Films' docudrama, Sons & Daughters of Thunder, will attend the special Sterling, Illinois benefit screening Thursday, April 18th at 6pm at Centennial Auditorium at Sterling High School, 1608 4th Avenue, and take part in Q&A after the movie. Tickets are $6/pp and can be reserved at www.centennialauditorium.org. Proceeds benefit the preservation of the Dillon Home Museum.
Jessica Taylor (as Harriet Beecher) and Chris Ryder (visual effects) will attend the Sterling event.
The Dillon Home Museum in Sterling, Illinois served as one of the key locations for the movie, with numerous scenes filmed inside and outside the historic site. Principal photography for Sons & Daughters of Thunder took place in Illinois, Ohio and Connecticut.
Thomas Alan Taylor (Theodore Weld) and Tristan Tapscott (Henry Thompson) will appear at the Sterling event.
“We are very happy to return to Sterling to showcase Sons & Daughters of Thunder in Sterling, and raise funds for the preservation of the historic Dillon Home Museum,” said director Kelly Rundle. "Curators Linda Heckler and Erin Thompson, the Dillon family and the Sterling Parks District were so supportive and helpful while filming the movie. We are happy to say 'thank you' with this benefit event.
Actors Mike Kennedy and Tom Walljasper will appear at the Sterling Benefit Screening of Thunder.
"The film is resonating with audiences and people are moved by the story and the exceptional performances by the actors--many of them from the Quad Cities region," said producer Tammy Rundle. "Sterling became our home-away-from-home for several months during filming, and the film's stars have fond memories of their experiences at the Dillon Home. We are happy so many of them want to take part in the benefit program."
Reserve your tickets at www.centennialauditorium.org.
Actor Travis Shepherd (far left front) will appear at the Sterling event.
Based on the critically-acclaimed play by Earlene Hawley and Curtis Heeter, Sons & Daughters of Thunder tells the true story of the 1834 Cincinnati, Ohio Lane Theological Seminary anti-slavery debates. The controversial meetings, led by abolitionist and firebrand Theodore Weld (played by actor Thomas Alan Taylor), were the first to publicly discuss the end of slavery in America. The meetings angered Cincinnati residents and Lane Seminary officials, who promptly slapped a gag order on the entire student body. This action was followed by a freedom of speech protest and mass exodus of Lane students to Oberlin College.
A young Harriet Beecher’s (played by actress Jessica Taylor) exposure to the debates and Weld's continuing work to free the slaves sparked a flame that led her to write her magnum opus Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Sons & Daughters of Thunder was partially funded by a grant from the Quad City Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, with support from the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation, and the Bix Biederbecke Inn. The Moline Foundation and the Shell Rock Community Historical Society served as the fiscal sponsors on the film project.
The Rundles are the producers of multiple award-winning historical documentaries and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation and Letters Home to Hero Street.
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