By: Jonathan Turner, WHBF
Fittingly for Black History Month, the Bettendorf Public Library will present Fourth Wall Films’ Mid-America Emmy-nominated docudrama “Sons & Daughters of Thunder” later this month.
This exclusive virtual event will feature film clips, which will only be available live on Feb. 17th at 1:30 p.m. on Fourth Wall Films’ Facebook page. A question-and-answer session with the film producers, and Christina Hartlieb, Executive Director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, will follow the clips.
Based on the play by Earlene Hawley and Curtis Heeter, “Sons & Daughters of Thunder” tells the unforgettable true story of the first-in-the-nation 1834 emancipation debates led by firebrand abolitionist Theodore Weld (Thomas Alan Taylor) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and their effect on a young Harriet Beecher Stowe’s (Jessica Taylor) views of slavery.
The 2019 film was co-produced by Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films and Kent Hawley, and executive producer Kimberly Kurtenbach. Award-winning cinematographer Kevin Railsback served as the director of photography.
The film received the Harriet Beecher Stowe Power of Voice Award at the Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival, won seven Iowa Motion Picture Awards, and received three Mid-America Emmy® nominations in 2020, including Original Score by William Campbell of Davenport.
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