In post-production Q3 2027
The Front Porch
Dir. Rusty Caldera
A widowed grandfather and the granddaughter he barely knows spend one Tennessee summer rebuilding the family farmhouse — and each other. A warm, slow-burning drama about second chances.
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Planet Heartland — Classic Heartland Cinema & Film Investment
The Notebook
A poor young man and a wealthy young woman fall deeply in love in 1940s South Carolina, but social pressures and family opposition threaten to keep them apart. Decades later, an elderly man reads their story aloud from a notebook.
240+
Films in the Heartland vault
7
Curated rows from romance to true stories
1,800+
Heartland filmmakers in our pipeline
12,400+
Founding members on the waitlist
Romance That Lasts
Family Stories
Faith & Inspiration
Heartland Lifestyle
Christmas Classics
Feel-Good Comedy
True Stories
Global Spotlight
The Heartland Pick
Tonight's featured story — what we'd queue up first if you only watched one film this week.
Romantic Drama · 2004 · Dir. Nick Cassavetes
The Notebook
A poor young man and a wealthy young woman fall deeply in love one summer in 1940s South Carolina — and spend the rest of their lives finding their way back to each other. The picture that taught a generation what a love story can be: warm, devastating, and impossible to forget.
- The romance benchmark — twenty years on, still the film couples watch together
- Nicholas Sparks' best-loved novel, faithfully adapted, beautifully cast
- The kind of story Planet Heartland exists to fund and stream
As seen in
VarietyHollywood ReporterDove.orgMovieguideChristian CinemaPlugged InHeartland FilmFaith & Family
Heartland, family & faith-friendly honours
Heartland Film Festival
Est. 1992
Movieguide Awards
Est. 1993
Dove Foundation
Est. 1991
Christian Film Festival
Est. 2010
GMA Dove Awards
Est. 1969
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Est. 1951
Festival and awards names are independent third-party properties. Planet Heartland is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of those listed.
Box-office tally
Numbers that prove the audience is here
$0.00M
Pledged to the heartland slate
0
Card-carrying founding members
0
Restorations & originals in flight
0%
Members who'd bring the family back
Our Why
Great stories strengthen families and deepen faith — across every tradition.
Planet Heartland is built for movie night with the people you love — kids, grandparents, neighbors, small groups, congregations and communities of every faith. We curate stories that uplift, never demean, and welcome viewers from all walks of life.
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Every title is reviewed for content. Clear age guidance, no surprises — safe for kids, grandparents and everyone in between.
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Stories That Lift
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How it works
Owning a piece of heartland cinema, in four steps.
Planet Heartland is part streaming service, part marketplace — restoring the great heartland films and bankrolling the next wave of romance, family, faith, holiday, feel-good and true-story cinema alongside the fans who love them. Built for family movie night, small groups, youth gatherings, and faith communities of every tradition.
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Wander the seven rows — Romance That Lasts, Family Stories, Faith & Inspiration, Heartland Lifestyle, Christmas Classics, Feel-Good Comedy, and True Stories. Watch the trailer, read the program notes, see exactly what each restoration or new production needs.
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Films stream on Planet Heartland and across licensing partners. Backers get revenue share, member perks, on-screen credits, and quarterly statements.
Filmmaker spotlight
"Every studio kept telling me a small story about a grandfather and his granddaughter wouldn't play in 2027. Planet Heartland was the first place that said, 'make the movie you want to make.'"
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Rusty Caldera
Director — "The Front Porch" · Family Drama · 2028
Coming soon to Planet Heartland
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Original Planet Heartland productions and restorations in development and post. Backers get first look, on-screen credits, and revenue share from every showing.
Funding open Q4 2027
Letters from Sundown
Dir. Lena Park
1957. A small-town schoolteacher in Nevada and the soldier she's never met fall in love through a year of letters. A neon-soaked romance shot on 35mm Ektachrome.
Funding soon Q1 2028
The Last Harvest
Dir. TBA
A young pastor returns to his Iowa hometown to save the church that raised him — and confronts the faith, family and first love he left behind. A heartland drama in the spirit of the Kendrick brothers.
From behind the camera
The Production Diary.
Members see this feed in full — dailies, on-set Polaroids, director's notes, restoration scans. Public previews below.
On set
Day 18 of 26The Front Porch
Shot the harvest-supper sequence tonight — eighty extras, three generations at one long table, real food, real grandparents. The dailies feel like every Sunday dinner you remember.
Post
Picture lockLetters from Sundown
Final cut delivered to scoring. We've handed it to a small string-and-piano ensemble — the whole second act is going to sound like a Sunday afternoon you didn't want to end.
Post
Sound mixThe Last Harvest
Choir loft session went late. Forty voices from the local church, one upright piano, one take of the closing hymn. Wiped a few tears in the booth.
Delivery
Festival cutA Quiet Christmas
Locked the 98-minute cut for the screener. Submitting next month to the Heartland Film Festival, the Movieguide Awards, and a holiday slot at the Dove Foundation showcase.
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