"Country School” Documentary Film Project Awarded $15,000 Grant by Humanities Iowa

Producers of award-winning documentaries "Villisca: Living with a Mystery" and "Lost Nation: The Ioway Ioway" focus on the Midwestern Country School as a new film exploration. Des Moines, IA, July 24, 2008 -- -- Through their fiscal sponsor, Kansas Public Telecommunications, Inc. (KPTS) in Wichita, Kansas, award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films have won a $15,000 grant award from Humanities Iowa to fund a portion of their new historical documentary film project “Country School: One Room – One Nation.” “KPTS is grateful to be involved in this important historical project,” said program manager David Brewer. “Especially given the high quality of the Rundles’ previous work.” Iowa and other Midwestern country schools took rough-hewn pioneer farmers, some of whom were non-English speaking immigrants,... [read full story]