A film project which aims to capture the story
of the people who make our Iowa.
This film project aims to capture the story of the people who make our Iowa. The purpose is to reveal the whole of the community through the telling of five individual family stories from those, free or not, who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, from those who over the generations journeyed across a river, and from the native people who across the ages have called this their home. Here we seek to puzzle together the enduring human story of the common struggle for freedom and the opportunity to progress.
Our hope is to piece together the stories of five Iowan families and their connection to history and the land. In the telling we’ll know of their sorrows and joys, and of what in them has been assimilated and what cannot be. What will emerge is the larger story of the great American experience.
The point of view is through the eyes of five middle-school students who ask the film’s premise question of their families, in particular that of their grand-parents: “How did we get
to Iowa?”
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