Red Dirt Rising

Red Dirt Rising is a 2011 film starring Brad Yoder, Burgess Jenkins and Brett Rice based on the book Red Dirt Tracks The Forgotten Heroes of Early Stockcar Racing by Gail Cauble Gurley telling the true story of race car driver Jimmie Lewallen. The film dramatizes the birth of NASCAR in the 1930s and 1940s.

Filming began in October 2007 fordays and was completed in November, 2007 in Archdale, North Carolina and High Point, North Carolina . Due to the timing of the production and the release of the Red One Digital Cinema Camera in the United States on August 31, 2007, Red Dirt Rising was one of the first featurelength film shot on the new camera system. Additional photography including the World Warsequences and some minor reshoots were completed in the summer of 2009.The world premier of the film was held at the North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilksboro, North Carolina on May 15, 2010 at an outdoor screening to an audience of approximately 4000. Throughout the Summer of 2010, the film was in limited release theatrically throughout the Southeast and mid Atlantic in overtheaters and also screened at numerous regional premieres around the United States including Buffalo, New York, Columbia, South Carolina, Knoxville, Iowa Cumberland Gap, TN and Jacksonville, Florida. The film was screened at the International Reel Wheel Film Festival in Knoxville, Iowa on April 2224, 2010 The film was screened out of competition at the Modern Film Fest in Kannapolis, NC on October 1, 2010 On January 11, 2011, the film was released for rental and retail on DVD, Bluray and Digital Download through Otter Creek Motion Pictures and Native Intelligence Distribution and carried for sell through retailers such as Walmart, Amazon, iTunes. ........

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