"The Barn Raisers" screens in Traverse City, Michigan Jan. 29
Fourth Wall Films' award-wining documentary "The Barn Raisers" will be featured at the Traverse Area Main Library on Thursday, January 29th at 6pm. A special photo exhibit on Michigan's heritage barns, including one from Grand Traverse County, is also a part of this special free public event sponsored by the Michigan Barn Preservation Network.
The Traverse Area District Library is located at 610 Woodmere Ave., Traverse City, MI. Visit https://www.tadl.org/BarnRaisers for more information or call (231) 932-8500.
"The Barn Raisers", a documentary produced by Emmy® Award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, tells the fascinating and true story of America's vintage barns and the mysterious men who built them. Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders who moved from job to job, and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. What do barn settings, styles, and building materials tell us about the people who built them, and the life they lived?
"The Barn Raisers" examines barns through the lens of architecture and paints a cinematic portrait of an enduring cultural icon. Insightful interviews with barn owners, historians, architects, artists, and preservationists are combined with "country cathedrals" in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan to tell this uniquely American story. The film is 54 minutes long.
"The Barn Raisers" was funded in part by a grant from the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, Wisconsin Humanities, Ohio Humanities, Friends of Ohio Barns, Humanities Iowa, Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, and the Kansas Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Fourth Wall Films is a five-time Emmy® Award winning independent film and video production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois. For more information visit FourthWallFilms.com.
