Western Films & Video

Candy won a Spur Finalist Award in 2002 for Footsteps to the West produced with Boston Productions Inc. (BPI) for the National Historic Trails Center and won a Spur Award in 2010 for In Pursuit of a Dream, the documentary film she wrote and produced with BPI for the Oregon-California Trails Association.  She has produced dozens of multimedia projects for museums and visitor centers.

Candy has spent more than two decades creating films for museums, visitor centers, interpretive centers, and historical organizations. 

“In Pursuit of a Dream”

Directed by Bob Noll

Written and Produced by Candy Moulton

Twenty-four modern-day teenagers set out on a trek along the Oregon-California Trail. They thought they’d be learning about history. They wound up learning about themselves.
Twenty-four students left their homes in the city, exchanged their shorts and sandals for long dresses and pioneer pants, and set off on a two-week journey on the Oregon and California Trails traveling by wagon train in Wyoming and Oregon. Like the 19th Century pioneers they were “In Pursuit of a Dream.”

Living in tents, riding in mule and horse-drawn wagons, and cooking outside, the students were learning about history by recreating an experience that in the 1800s drew 400,000 people to take part in the westward migration.

The film is produced by Boston Productions Inc., in cooperation with the Oregon-California Trails Association.

Awards:

  • Spur Award – Best Documentary Film, Western Writers of America, 2010
  • Oregon Heritage Award, 2010
  • Silver Remi Award from the USA Film Festival in Houston, 2010
  • Best Experimental Film from the Oregon Film Festival, 2010
  • Finalist at the International Family Film Festival in Hollywood, 2010
  • Screened at the Boston International Film Festival, 2010
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Beneath the Plains: The Minuteman Missile on Alert

Directed by Bob Noll
Produced by Candy Moulton
Written by Ron Blau

The land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system known as Minuteman, went online in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and remains one of the triad nuclear armament systems in the United States. Working with the National Park Service, BPI shows both US and Soviet perspectives about the nuclear arms race. This is a combination of military and cultural history.

Awards:

Beneath the Plains

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

  • 1st place Documentary Film, National Association of Interpretation, 2019
  • 1st place, Technology Award, Mountains and Plains Museum Association,
    2019
  • Special Jury Remi, WorldFest, Houston, Texas, 2019

Meet the Missileers

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

  • 2nd place Documentary Film, National Association of Interpretation,
    2017
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Packing the West

Developed by Western Writers of America and The Homestead Foundation
Directed by Bob Noll
Produced and some segments written by Candy Moulton

Packing the West, a Western Writers of America Library/Classroom Literary Series, tells America’s story of the frontier from the perspective of the Native Americans who inhabited the land for centuries before any explorers or pioneer settlers arrived. Other subjects include Legends & Characters, Western Trails, and Western Women.
Among the stories already developed are the stories of William Bent and Bent’s Old Fort along the Santa Fe Trail, Jim Bridger and the mountain man rendezvous, gold miner Louise Clappe, and Black cowboy Nat Love.

Awards:

  • First Place Technology Award, Mountains and Plains Museum Association, 2021
  • Gold Award Digital Education, Southeast Museum Association, 2021

 
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