Jewel to be featured in Upcoming Film

[Little Bird]

Before you get all excited, it is not a big movie, not even close. More of a tribute!

Jewel is due to be featured in an upcoming movie about the Heritage of American Homesteads to be shown in Autumn in the Homestead Heritage Center in America.

Businesses with local ties help fund film for new Homestead Heritage Center


Monday, February 5, 2007 9:41 AM CST
Three businesses with local ties recently provided support for a new film in production for future viewing at Homestead National Monument of America.

Nebraska Public Power District, First National Beatrice Bank and Trust and Pinnacle Bank are all helping to ensure that the new Homestead Heritage Center will eventually have a new film for visitors to watch as part of their experience at the monument. The heritage center is expected to open in spring 2007 and the new film is scheduled to premiere the following autumn.

“Land of Dreams: Homesteading America” is currently being filmed by National Park Service film producer Chuck Dunkerly of the Service's Interpretive Design Center in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Dunkerly has worked on a number of film projects that have received national recognition and awards. His work on Land of Dreams has thus far taken him to Alaska, Nebraska and other homesteading states.
The new film will examine the history of homesteading in the United States as well as the modern impacts the Homestead Act still has on our national life. It will highlight different landscapes from throughout the U.S., feature esteemed historians that study the West and homesteading, and demonstrate homesteading's influences on immigration, agriculture, industrialization, national politics, the natural environment and American Indian populations.

Nationally recognized figures such as newspaper columnist George Will and rock singer Jewel (Kilcher) will be featured, as will examples of homesteading's influence on contemporary life. Examples of this include the homesteading-related names of several college athletic teams, including the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Oklahoma Sooners.

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[awiste]

wow. That sounds really cool. Thanks for letting us know!

[last_dance_rodeo]

cool i wish i could see this

[Little Bird]

Found this today at Beatrice Daily Sun

‘When You Dream' presentation a tribute to family's homesteading legacy


By Joelyn Hansen/Daily Sun staff writer
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:26 AM CDT

Atz Kilcher's parents, Yule and Ruth, came to the United States in pursuit of a dream.

So, it is appropriate that Kilcher's program tribute to his parents and family legacy is entitled, “When You Dream.”

In an hour-long program, Kilcher, father of world-famous singer and songwriter Jewel, presented a multi-media presentation Monday afternoon about his homesteading family at the Homestead National Monument of America Heritage Center.

Kilcher's parents arrived in Homer, Alaska, in the 1930s after leaving Switzerland. Alaska lured them because of the opportunities it offered: free land and the chance to live among its natural beauty and wilderness.

Yule Kilcher eventually went on to help write the Alaska state constitution and serve as a state senator.

It was there on an Alaska homestead that Atz Kilcher, along with his seven siblings, was born and raised.

In a log cabin his father built, Kilcher's family cultivated not only the land they lived on, but also their creativity and musical talents. Song became a natural part of their lives, whether they were sitting down for meals or working outside on the farm.

The Kilchers also raised their children with the sense of capturing their dreams.

Kilcher's program, which pays tribute to his parents' legacy, takes its audiences back to the life of a homesteader through the use of movie film, photographs and music.

“It's an exciting treasure,” Kilcher said about the ability he has to share with audiences about his family. “I love to share my music, I love to share my story.”

The program consists of film footage taken during the Kilchers' early homesteading days as they cultivated the land. The film is the only known piece of colored film from that time period that documents the life of homesteaders, Kilcher said.

“It was a silent movie that my father used to narrate,” he said. “It kind of gives you a glimpse of quite a few years of homesteading and pioneering.”

In the film, the Kilcher family is seen working together on the homestead among the backdrop of the Alaska wilderness and shoreline.

As the film and photographs are shown across the screen, Kilcher sings a variety of songs he wrote in tribute to his family, particularly his mother and father, and other songs derived from events in his life that helped shape who he is today.

He also pays tribute to his own children, including his daughter, Jewel, who has become an accomplished singer and composer herself.

Kilcher, who has worked as a social worker and a music teacher, has made a number of performances through the years yodeling, singing and playing his guitar. He plans to travel and present this program at various venues in the nation to teach and entertain audiences with the history of his family.

“How lucky can a guy be to share his story, his heritage through music,” Kilcher said.

[ItBeThatWay27]

even though its not a major movie I am still excited

[DreamsLast]

I really want to see this!!!!

[Little Bird]

As far as I am aware, it is only showing at the homestead centre in Alaska.

[DreamsLast]

Oh darn!!!!!!