“Lost Nation: The Ioway-1” film re-master project awarded Humanities Nebraska grant
The documentary “Lost Nation: The Ioway-1” produced by Emmy® Award-winning Moline-based filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films is getting an upgrade. Through its fiscal sponsor Truth First Film Alliance, Inc., the award-winning documentary received a $2,000 Humanities Nebraska grant to partially fund re-mastering the 2007 film in high-definition (HD).
“We are grateful to Humanities Nebraska for supporting this project,” said producer Kelly Rundle. “The grant award will help fund a portion of updating and re-editing the historical documentary in high-definition (HD), ensuring it has a viable future.”
“Lost Nation: The Ioway-1” of the three-part series, begins in 1824, during the twilight of Native American dominion, when two conflicted Ioway leaders met with William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) to sign a momentous treaty. White Cloud (Mahaska) saw cooperation as survival for his people, while Great Walker (Moanahonga) regretted the loss of their ancestral homeland. This pivotal moment led both men to different tragic destinies in their battle with epic change.
Ioway Elders and tribal members join historians and archaeologists to tell the dramatic and true story of the small tribe that once claimed the territory between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers from Pipestone, Minnesota to St. Louis. What was a quest for survival in the past, has become a a struggle to retain a unique Native American culture and language in the present.
A portion of the HN grant will also help fund the update of the Ioway language alternative soundtrack.
“Lost Nation: The Ioway-1” garnered several film festival awards including Best Documentary at the International Cherokee Film Festival. It was an Official Selection in the Archaeology Channel’s International Film Festival, a winner at the Iowa Independent Film Festival, and the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival. Since its premiere in 2007, the film has screened in over 70 cities throughout the country, was released nationally on DVD and broadcast on PBS stations.
In addition to Humanities Nebraska, the “Lost Nation: The Ioway-1” HD re-master project has received grant awards from the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.
Humanities Nebraska was established as a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1973. Humanities Nebraska’s mission is to help people explore what connects us and makes us human. HN’s vision: Nebraskans possess the knowledge, understanding, and empathy to cultivate a more informed, thoughtful, and just society. For more information, visit https://humanitiesnebraska.org/.
The Rundles are the owners of Fourth Wall Films, a five-time Emmy® award-winning independent film and video production company based in Moline, Illinois. The sequels “Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3” are available via streaming on VIMEO.com, and for purchase on DVD. Visit www.IowayMovie.com for more information.
