Fourth Wall Films

Making Movies That Matter

Fourth Wall Films is an Emmy-winning Northwestern Illinois-based film production company specializing in Midwestern historical documentary films for public television broadcast, Blu-ray and DVD release, digital download, and online streaming. Fourth Wall Films also provides production services to museums, PBS stations, and other media production companies.

Fourth Wall Films was formed in Kansas City, Missouri by husband and wife filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle. The company was located in Los Angeles for 18 years. Fourth Wall Films has found a permanent home in the Quad Cities on the Mississippi River.

The "Fourth Wall" is the missing wall of a theatrical stage, or the wall a film is projected on in a movie theater. It is the interface between the audience and the performance.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Fourth Wall Films' award shelf includes five Mid-America Emmy® Awards, fourteen Mid-America Emmy nominations, Telly® Awards, film festival Best Documentary Awards, and dozens of film festival Official Selections including the Raindance Film Festival in London, the American Documentary Film Festival (AMDOCS) in Palm Springs (selection by invitation), the Newport Beach Film Festival (selection by invitation), and the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival.

Fourth Wall FIlms has received more than a dozen Humanities Media Grant Awards from state councils in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Special awards include the Golden Silo Award from Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (National Park Service) and the IVCCD Orpheum Theater Center Outstanding Service Award, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Power of Voice Award.

SELECTED MUSEUM & COMMERCIAL CLIENTS

Putnam Museum & Science Center

State of South Dakota - Good Earth at Blood Run Museum

Wisconsin Historical Society - Reed School Museum

Living History Farms

Black Hawk State Historic Site

Sanford Museum

Wikiup Hill Learning Center

StudioCanal

Travel Channel

truTV

Optimum Releasing