The “SILO” team flew from New York and Los Angeles to show the film for the first time and meet audience members much like the characters in the film and the people who helped make it.

“SILO” premiered in August 2019 at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois. So the best, most authentic way to distribute “SILO” was through a Community Screening Campaign. That’s not how “SILO” was made, and that’s not what it’s about. Years of hard work go into making these stories, yet audiences normally consume them while binge-watching Amazon, Netflix, etc. There’s a growing theme in agriculture: more machines, fewer humans. Multiple industries came together to make “SILO.” The film about community was made by community, so how would it be distributed? Photo credit: Leah Pottinger The ‘Silo’ Community The Grain Handling Safety Coalition, a nonprofit and thought leader in grain safety, also took on the role of advisor. Dale Dobson, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s Farm and Home Safety Program’s administrator, served as an advisor, and is now a “SILO” advocate, even bringing “SILO” to his local FFA in Hodgenville, Kentucky, as well as the Kentucky School for the Deaf. Further generosity was shown by the people at Sukup Manufacturing Co., who even took part in the construction of the grain bin sets that made filming the accident scenes possible. “SILO” was filmed on another family farm, Affinity Farms in New Haven, Kentucky. Photo credit: Hunter Baker, Cinematographer

When grain turns to quicksand, family, neighbors and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue Cody from drowning in the crop that has sustained their community for generations. Disaster strikes when 18-year-old Cody Rose (Jack DiFalco) is caught in a 50-foot-tall grain bin. The film follows a harrowing day in an American farm town. Written by North Carolina-native Jason Williamson, “SILO” turned into a feature film as a fictional story based on true grain-related incidents. The generosity of the Fox Family had made a lasting impression, and the “SILO” producing team was confident in taking a risk on a full, feature-length script. But it needed to be told to a larger audience, to and for the people it was about. The success of the short documentary was confirmation – this story needed to be told. The film went on to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in Lower Manhattan. When offered payment for their time and their land, The Fox Family, a multigenerational farming family, refused, showing a generosity rarely encountered in the entertainment industry. It began as a short documentary filmed on a farm in Rising Sun, Indiana. After five years of working on the award-winning film, producer Sam Goldberg asked an important question: “If farmers’ products can get from the plains of the midwest to coastal American cities and beyond, why can’t the inverse be true?” Photo credit: Hunter Baker, Cinematographer The Making of ‘Silo’ “SILO” is the first-ever feature film about a grain entrapment, and its producers are the first in the film industry to bring independent film directly to agricultural audiences.

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