Telemark Pictures is a filmmaking group located in the sprawling prairie village of Topeka, Kansas.  Our goal is to develop filmmaking in Kansas and the midwest.  
 
Recent Projects -  Telemark recently teamed up with Outpost Worldwide in Kansas City to produce a promotional trailer for "Dogs of Eden"

Synopsis: Kansas Territory in the turbulent years preceding the Civil War is a land of mixed culture and righteous people. Drawn together by the promise of freedom and prosperity they struggle to survive in this land they call Eden. Living in this untamed territory are men like John Brown who became the leader of antislavery guerrillas and fought a pro-slavery attack against the antislavery town of Lawrence. And The Reverend Thomas Johnson who was determined to uphold slavery within the confines of his mission school in Kansas. Both of these men, their families, enslaved people and Indian tribes are intertwined on both sides of what became the Civil War. Along the way there is hatred, faith, disillusionment, corruption, friendship and love. The lives of these families overlap with many others, the educated and the ruffians who came to the Territory in 1856.

The promo was directed and produced by Chuck Cranston,  Cinematograhy by Jason Cantu,   Music by Paul Spaeth.

 

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Through Martha's Eyes, is another Telemark production based in part on historical events and tells the story of Martha,  a young African American woman sold into slavery in 1856 to work and live at an Indian Mission School in what is now Kansas. Thinking Kansas Territory was the land of freedom, and that she would soon be set free,  Martha travels from Missouri to her new home at the Mission.  She soon finds out things are much different than she thought.  While trying to manage as a seamstress Martha is forced to help change cultural beliefs among Indian children, and is witness to the early skirmishes that lead to Civil War.  Breathtaking vistas, romance, friendship and defiance all come together in a dramatic conclusion to this powerful story from the American frontier.    


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National Distribution on PBS - 2008

            
                  
For more information about this film, or if you woluld like to obtain a DVD,   please contact Telemark Pictures.

 




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