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.

You can listen to it here.

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…

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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.”

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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.

Read more here.

Results from the 2012 OFF

Screenplays:

Best Nebraska Screenplay – “Deer Killer” written by Chuck Mittan
Best Feature Screenplay – “k i luv u bye” written by Nicolaas Bertelsen & Carolyn Stephenson
Best Short Screenplay – “Becoming Lana Liu” David J. Schroeder

Films:

Jury Prizes:

Best Animated Short Film – “Nullarbor” directed by Alistair Lockhart & Patrick Sarell
Animated Short Film Honorable Mention – “The Boy in the Bubble” directed by Kaelan O’Rourke

Best Nebraska Short Film – “The Fixer” directed by Aaron Zavitz
Nebraska Short Film Honorable Mention – “Voluntary Gestures” directed by Stefan Morel

Best Short Film – “First Kiss” directed by Charles Hood
Short Film Honorable Mention – “Friend Request Pending” directed by Chris Faggin

Best OFF the Edge Film – “Nailbiter” directed by Patrick Rea
OFF the Edge Honorable Mention – “Underground” directed by Rafael Eisenman

Best Documentary – “Andrew Bird: Fever Year” directed by Xan Aranda
Documentary Honorable Mention – “Give a Damn?” Directed by Dan Parris

Best Feature Film – “6 Month Rule” Directed by Blayne Weaver
Feature Film Honorable Mention – “Take Me Home” directed by Sam Jaeger

Feature Film Honorable Mention – “A Schizophrenic Love Story” directed by Dylan Thomas Ellis & Glenn D. Levy

Death Grip Electric Award for Killer Cinematography presented to a Nebraska Short – “The Fixer” – cinematographer Aaron Zavitz

Audience Choice Awards:

Audience Choice Short Film – “Voluntary Gestures” directed by Stefan Morel
Audience Choice Documentary – “The Girls in the Band” directed by Judy Chaikin
Audience Choice Feature Film – “October Baby” directed by Andrew & Jon Erwin

OFF’12 Encore Award: “Renee” directed by Nathan Frankowsk

The Reader | “Short and Sweet”

Here’s an article from Michael J. Krainak about the Nebraska’s short film makers:

The seventh annual Omaha Film Festival opens this week at Great Escape Theatres with a well-earned reputation as one of Movie Maker’s Top 25 Film Festivals worth the Entry Fee. It’s a reputation one group of entrants, the Nebraska Short Film Makers especially appreciate as many of these emerging artists launch their careers in this five-day event ending this Sunday, Mar. 11

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