Award-winning and critically-acclaimed documentary about a lingering murder mystery in an Iowa town makes its television debut on IPTV
(1888PressRelease) November 09, 2006 - (Johnston, Iowa) -- On Thursday, November 16 at 8 p.m., Iowa Public Television will broadcast "Villisca: Living with a Mystery", a documentary that explores the enduring mystery surrounding Iowa's worst mass homicide, the 1912 Villisca Axe Murders. This IPTV broadcast marks the national television debut of the film.
Produced by former Iowans Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films in Los Angeles, "Villisca: Living with a Mystery" examines the still-unsolved 1912 Children’s Day axe murders and its effect on the town both then and now. The Rundles teamed with noted historian and researcher Dr. Edgar Epperly of Decorah, to make the film over a 10-year period. Interviews with scholars, criminologists, relatives of the victims, and town residents have been combined with hundreds of newly-discovered photographs, official legal documents, archival footage, and computer animation to shed new light on the 94-year-old mystery and its long-term impact.
"Villisca" was shown in theaters in over 50 cities, and was released nationally on DVD in 2006. The film qualified for the 2005 Academy Award competition in the documentary feature category, was selected as Best Documentary in the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, received Honorable Mention at the New York City Rural Route Film Festival, and was officially selected for the Max Allan Collins Film Expo and for inclusion in the Permanent Collection of the Waterloo Center for the Arts. Recent Halloween screenings in Council Bluffs and Des Moines sold out in minutes.
"Villisca: Living with a Mystery" will also be broadcast Sunday, November 19 at 3 p.m. and Sunday, November 26 at 10 p.m. on statewide Iowa Public Television. Dates and times for PBS broadcasts in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota will be announced soon.
For more information, photos, and interviews with the filmmakers and historian Dr. Epperly, contact IPTV at 515-242-3146 or visit www.VilliscaMovie.com.
Award-winning and critically-acclaimed documentary about a lingering murder mystery in an Iowa town makes its television debut on IPTV 
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