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Bonesteel Films is in production on a feature length documentary on the life and influence of writer Carl Sandburg, titled The Day Carl Sandburg Died.

Three years into production, Bonesteel Films has formed a remarkable team of researchers, scholars, consultants and interviewees including notable Sandburg biographer Penelope Niven, Philip Yanella, author of The Other Carl Sandburg, Mark W. Van Wienen, and Author Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War.

Two new contributors to the project are consulting producer Peter Frumkin, who most recently produced and directed "Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home" a documentary that aired nationally on PBS's American Masters series and Paul Berman, who recently edited "Carl Sandburg, Selected Poems" and recently discussed the book on NPR.

Featuring interviews with surviving family friends and contemporaries, including his daughter, Helga Sandburg Crile, Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger, Joanna Steichen and Norman Corwin,
The Day Carl Sandburg Died addresses Sandburg’s prolific contributions to poetry, history, journalism, folk music and children’s literature while exploring the critical and popular decline of this ‘American Icon’ which following his death and the remarkable resurgence in appreciation for his work.

Click here for a longer description of the ideas to be included in the film.
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The Hendersonville N.C. based non-profit group, Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara is serving as the projects sponsoring organization.

For more information contact; Paul Bonesteel of Bonesteel Films at 828-236-0300