Seeing a teenager frantically pushing grain away from himself as he's sinking deeper into corn is terrifying even if you know it's just a scene from a movie. For those who have lost a family member to grain entrapment, it might be too much to see, Diane Hughes, sales director at Sukup Manufacturing Co., said quietly after watching on a monitor during filming in North Iowa.
Inspired by true events, the yet-to-be-named movie depicts 24 hours in a small Midwestern farming community where, due to carelessness and bad luck, a young farmhand gets trapped in a grain bin and rescuers struggle to get him out. It's a scenario that is repeated too often on family farms, but not one that a lot of people outside of the Midwest know about, said the movie's New York-based producer, Samuel Goldberg. After a director pitched the idea to him four years ago, screenwriting began. Two years ago when scouting out filming locations, Mr Goldberg learned about Sukup Manufacturing Co. and asked the family-owned company to design bins that could be used for filming. Mr Goldberg met with Steve Sukup, vice president and chief financial officer, and his daughter Emily Schmitt, general counsel, to get the project rolling.
Read the full article on the Milling and Grain website, HERE.
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| Image credit: Sukup Manufacturing Co |
Inspired by true events, the yet-to-be-named movie depicts 24 hours in a small Midwestern farming community where, due to carelessness and bad luck, a young farmhand gets trapped in a grain bin and rescuers struggle to get him out. It's a scenario that is repeated too often on family farms, but not one that a lot of people outside of the Midwest know about, said the movie's New York-based producer, Samuel Goldberg. After a director pitched the idea to him four years ago, screenwriting began. Two years ago when scouting out filming locations, Mr Goldberg learned about Sukup Manufacturing Co. and asked the family-owned company to design bins that could be used for filming. Mr Goldberg met with Steve Sukup, vice president and chief financial officer, and his daughter Emily Schmitt, general counsel, to get the project rolling.
Read the full article on the Milling and Grain website, HERE.
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