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DIRECTOR'S
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I have always
loved learning about history and visiting
historical places. Through film, it is about as
close as most people can ever get to actually
traveling back in time to visit events and
people from our past. My keen interest in
history, especially American women’s history,
led me to write “Prairie Rose”. Film enables
one to lead an audience on an historical journey
that may enlighten and inspire the audience to
appreciate events of the past more and maybe
even inspire them to learn more about a
particular time period or historical individual. |
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In
“Prairie Rose”, I wanted to tell a story about
the Civil war that would not focus on the great
generals and battles, but rather on women of the
period who also wanted to help out the war
effort by doing more than just working at home
taking care of their farms and families, but by
becoming nurses and spies, often in the face of
great peril and discrimination. Courageous
Civil War women who spied for the Confederacy
such as Bell Boyd and Rose O’Neal Greenhow, and
nurses like Kate Cumming of the Confederacy,
Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton of the
United States Women’s Nursing Corps inspired me
to write and produce my film, “Prairie Rose”.
Therefore in 2003, I sat down and began to
create a story that could describe some of the
extraordinary accomplishments by these
extraordinary women. Though characters in the
film themselves were created for the story, they
are based on real people and places such as the
Civil War women mention and the mothers and
daughters left behind by husbands, sons and
brothers going off to fight in battles such as
Shiloh.
It was also about this time that I became aware
of a Civil War prisoner of war camp located in
Chicago known as Camp Douglas. I also learned
that there were some 6000 Confederate POWs would
come to loose their lives there before the war’s
end. They are all still buried in a cemetery on
the cities south side. I knew I wanted to
include this information in my film in order to
create more awareness about the camp and what
happened there.
I tried to tell the story in a manner that would
be viewable to as wide an audience as possible
in the hopes that school aged children may be
inspired to learn more about history. Should
one or two become interested enough to seek out
and study more about our nations history, I feel
that “Prairie Rose” will have been a very worth
while undertaking.
Thank You and I do hope you enjoy the film.
Best Regards,
Rebecca Sutera Tulloch
Film Maker
Director, Producer, and Writer |
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