One-Time Only Event Tomorrow!
Don't miss this one-of-a-kind event on Thursday at 1-2p
Riding the Rails to Hero Street
Thursday, February 27th at 1-2 pm
Join us at RVDL for a 27-minute documentary showing, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers!
Riding the Rails to Hero Street
The program is free to the public and includes a discussion with the filmmakers and others following the 30-minute film. The film premiered on the Putnam Giant Screen last Veterans Day eve to a standing-ovation by a sold-out crowd. “Riding the Rails to Hero Street”, part one in the Rundles’ Hero Street documentary series, tells the story of the immigrants’ journey from Mexico to Cook’s Point in Davenport, Holy City in Bettendorf,
Iowa, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad train yards and boxcar homes in Silvis, Illinois. The families experienced both acceptance and discrimination in their new communities. Around the time of the great depression, the families were removed from the rail yards and some moved box cars or built new homes on 2nd Street in Silvis. Only a block and a half long, the street lost six young men in World War II and two in the Korean War, more than any other street in America.
Hero Street, as it is now known, has provided over 100 service members since World War II. The Rundles’ Hero Street proposed ten-part documentary series, will explore the personal and family sagas behind each of the eight heroes from Silvis, Illinois and tell the compelling true story of an ongoing struggle to memorialize them. The Rundles’ Mid-America Emmy-nominated "Letters Home to Hero Street" (co-produced with WQPT) tells Hero Frank Sandoval’s story and was the first film created for the series. The newest film in the series, “A Bridge too Far from Hero Street”, tells Hero William Sandoval’s story.
Through its fiscal sponsor the Moline Foundation, the “Hero Street” Documentary Film Series received partial funding from the Regional Development Authority (RDA), Illinois Arts Council, the Illinois Humanities, Humanities Iowa, National Endowment for the Humanities, Quad City Arts, the Quad Cities Community Foundation, LULAC Iowa, Mexican American Veterans Association, the City of Silvis, and individual contributors. The project also received two grant awards from the Moline Foundation. The views and opinions expressed by these films do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
Fourth Wall Films is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated independent film production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois
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