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Love Letter to Leader [Available through March 31 at twincitiesfilmfest.org/streams as part of TCFF's encore presentation; it will be available at a later date via various VOD platforms.] Wonderful scenery and cinematography dominate Mara Adamitz Scrupe's captivating, insightful, educational, down-to-earth, well-paced, thought-provoking, 76-minute documentary with a poetic opening and underscored by a striking soundtrack in which several generations of the director's family and citizens of small-town Leader, Minn., reminisce about their diverse and common struggles and delights growing up in the tight-knit farming community in Cass county and dealing with the ever-changing times through archival photographs and film clips and candid interview snippets with an eclectic, hardworking group of Leader natives, including equipment operator Dale Hanson, retired dairy farmers Don and June Hanson, recycling entrepreneur Jake Sirucek, educator Ruth Boldan, Leader History Museum founder Glenda Dauer, Bears Bar and Restaurant owner Gary Dauer, farmers and military veterans Herbert and Ronnie Hanson, mechanic/inventor John Sirucek, truck driver/rancher Jim Sirucek, taxidermist Jeremy Dauer, Hanson family historian Steve Bendsen, Minnesota masters runner Carol Sankey, agricultural construction engineer and former T. E. Eberson Company CEO Walt Hanson, and Leader natives, including Cody and Elsie Hanson, Connie and Harry Winter, Donelle and Rosie Sirucek, Dorothy Heath-Hengstler and Ray Hengstler.   Redhead: Year: 2021 Rating:  NR View Love Letter to Leader on the Internet Movie Database