Filmmakers travel across Kansas on foot for documentary on the state’s beauty, people

Two filmmakers and Kansas natives who zigzagged hundreds of miles on foot across the Sunflower State learned more about the state and the people who reside in it, they said.

A portion of a film depicting their travels will be on display in Lawrence this week.
Patrick Ross, originally from Lawrence, and Joshua Nathan, originally from Moundridge, walked across the state on foot in seven weeks in 2015, checking out spectacular monuments in the state and allowing the area in between to “present itself” to them, Nathan said.
“We didn’t want to itinerarize too much,” he said of their travel. “The walk was very important to us to stay on the back roads, stay on the dirt roads, see who we met and let that guide the trip in the moment.”