Patti Ralph-Neely is pulled from the Des Moines River near the Center Street dam in Des Moines, Iowa, by construction worker Jason Oglesbee in 2009. The photo, taken by a Des Moines Register photographer, later won the Pulitzer Prize. REGISTER FILE PHOTO
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of heroism will become a series of moving images further exploring the definition of a hero when a mid-Missouri filmmaker begins…