The Iowa Motion Picture Association has postponed this year's awards ceremony in response to the manditory state restrictions concerning COVID-19. Fourth Wall Films' Sons & Daughters of Thunder is nominated for eight awards this year. The IMPA gala event has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 8th, 2020 and will take place at the Bridgeview Center in Ottumwa, Iowa.
The IMPA wrote: "The Board of Directors of The Iowa Motion Picture Association has been closely following the updates, CDC and information released by Governor Reynolds surrounding COVID-19. Because your health and safety is our highest priority we have decided to postpone The 29th Annual Iowa Motion Picture Awards. We have worked with the Bridgeview Center and we have been able to secure a new date – August 8th, 2020. We will continue to monitor the situation and send any updates as we approach this new date should any additional changes in plan be required."
IMPA event updates will be posted on its website at https://www.impa.tv/awards.html.
The IMPA bestowed Sons & Daughters of Thunder, a new docudrama produced by Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, with eight award nominations: Best Narrative Film; Best Actor: Thomas Alan Taylor; Best Actress, Jessica Taylor; Best Supporting Actress, Kimberly Kurtenbach; Director of Photography, Kevin Railsback; Editing, Kelly Rundle; Original Music Score, William Campbell; Directing, Kelly Rundle.
The film is based on the play, Sons & Daughters of Thunder, written by Earlene Hawley and Curtis Heeter, and tells the true story of the early debates on emancipation and the awakening of Harriet Beecher Stowe to the horrors of slavery.
Sons & Daughters of Thunder was partially funded by a grant from the Quad City Arts, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, with support from 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 film is co-produced by Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films and Kent Hawley. Kimberly Kurtenbach is the Executive Producer of the film.
Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films 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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