Omaha World Herald | Omaha Film Festival Set for Five Days of Events
Bob Fischbach of the Omaha World Herald previews this year’s film festival:
The five-day festival will screen 91 films, including 16 narrative features, seven documentaries, four special screenings and 64 short films divided into seven sessions. All will be shown at Regal Cinema (formerly Great Escape), 7440 Crown Point Ave. Nightly parties at venues around the city will give film fans and filmmakers a chance to mingle and connect.
Shorts by Nebraska filmmakers, among the festival’s most popular offerings, number 19 this year and will be shown in three blocks, March 7 and 8 at 8:45 p.m. and March 9 at 8 p.m.
Necronomicast | Interview with Rob Kuhns, director of “Year of the Living Dead”
This podcast features an interview of Rob Kuhns, director of Year of the Living Dead.
In this episode Marc Longbrake, Program Director for the Omaha Film Festival joins Wayne in the studio and they interview Rob Kuhns, Director of the documentary Year of the Living Dead. They chat with Rob and discover how he documented the footage for his movie about the making and social impact of Night of the Living Dead. It will be shown at the Omaha Film Festival as part of their “Off The Edge” series.
NPR | Honor Flight
Here’s an interview with Dan Hayes, director of Honor Flight, which will be shown at this year’s OFF. Thanks to Cheril Lee for doing the interview.
NPR | La Source
Patrick Shen and Brandon Vedder’s film, La Source, is about a Princeton custodian, originally from Haiti, who seeks to bring clean water to his village back home. It’s one of the documentaries that’ll play at the Omaha Film Festival. Omaha Public Radio’s Cheril Lee has the details…
Daily Nebraskan | UNL alumni’s ‘One Way’ garners private screening at Omaha Film Festival
A UNL alum’s film gets a private screening at the Omaha Film Festival:
“One Way,” just accepted for a private screening at the Omaha Film Festival, follows Stephen, played by Jeffery, as he tries to find out exactly what he wants in life. Jeffery and his crew of mostly University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumni and students shot the movie last summer in just 13 days. Jeffery moved to Los Angeles for the movie’s post-production, which wrapped up early this year.
Jeffery said he connects deeply with the script he wrote.
“Stephen’s arc is pretty relatable to everybody,” Jeffery said, “… feeling trapped or feeling like you could be more if you lived somewhere else. Getting out of the town you grew up in.”
Read the rest of this article here.
NPR | Becoming Fools
The Omaha Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday at the Regal Stadium 16. Among the documentaries in this year’s Festival is one by filmmaker Scott Moore called “Becoming Fools.” Omaha Public Radio’s Cheril Lee has more…
NET | Pad Yatra: The Green Odyssey
The Omaha Film Festival begins March 6th – Seven documentaries were selected for inclusion in the festival. Today, Cheril Lee has the details on a documentary that focuses on the adventure story of 700 people…
Mulberry Lane | Interview with Marc Longbrake
Our very own Marc Longbrake was featured on the Mulberry Lane show. You can listen to it (as well as some singing and dancing!) here.
Project ArtCast | Release Party 2013
Project ArtCast talks about the OFF Release party!
Saturday evening, February 9th from 6:00pm to 11:00pm, come check out the beautiful North Sea Films building and visit the Omaha Film Festival folks to discuss the upcoming Eighth Annual Omaha Film Festival. There will be plenty of time to socialize and meet filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors to discuss upcoming projects, and we’d like to take some time to talk about some festival specific topics.
For those in attendance, we will be unveiling our list of films for the first time to the general public, so this is your chance to be the first to know! As you know, we show some of the best independent feature films, documentaries, short films, animated shorts, and OFF the EDGE films every year, and we’re very excited about the films that we’ve chosen to showcase this year.
MetroMAGAZINE | “Omaha Film Festival 2012”
Here’s an article from Leo A. Biga about the 2012’s festival and Rachel Jacobson in January’s MetroMAGAZINE:
Read the digital edition of the full article here
