11th Annual Village Pointe Cinema 304 North 174th St omah v:11 afilmfe r stiv ma al.o 13 rg - 8 F F O IN T E R N A T I O N A L - N A S Y T A I L O P N N A E E L R - C L S O - C S A T L R O H S - S E I R A T N M E A M D U E C O I N D - N S E E B R R U T A A S E K F A FESTIVAL March 8 - 13, 2016 CONFERENCE March 12-13, 2016 omahafilmfestival.org Welcome FADE IN INT. VILLAGE POINTE CINEMA – NIGHT Long tables adorned with black tablecloths form a makeshift booth in the lobby of the theatre. Laid out on the tables are promotional postcards and posters for over 100 films, all beckoning to would-be audience members: “Come to the show!” FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS stand behind the booth, anxious smiles stretched across their faces, all of them eager to help out when called upon. A FEMALE VOLUNTEER is pulling stacks of booklets out of a box; upon closer inspection, we see that these are festival guides for the 11TH ANNUAL OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL. Across the street at THE FUNNY BONE, SCOTT KURZ and AARON ZAVITZ are working with the most well-oiled machine of actors you can find in this city, putting the finishing touches on the Writer’s Theatre performance. JULIE MATTHEWS, a tall drink of water who looks like she should be a CEO, steps back behind the booth and calls the Volunteers over into a huddle. It’s obvious that Julie runs the volunteers (and the festival directors). The door to the projection booth opens and out steps MARC LONGBRAKE, the Program Director, with his mane of long, flowing, gorgeous hair trailing behind him. He’s just finished talking with the FESTIVAL PROJECTIONISTS, most of whom have been with the festival since year one. Through the front doors of the theatre stumbles JASON LEVERING, the Executive Director, his gray beard unshaven and hair mussed, he is most likely drunk or hung-over. He gets that way this time of year. Jason is intercepted by JEREMY DECKER, the Festival Director, who can still pass for Joaquin Phoenix. Jeremy is riding on a unicorn. No one questions how Jeremy found a unicorn, it just is. Jason and Marc join Jeremy on the unicorn and they trot down to Theatre 10, where they need to check sound levels for the opening night film. Dim the lights. Cue the Sponsor Reel. Enjoy the show. WELCOME TO THE 11TH ANNUAL OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL! March 8-13, 2016 03 Schedule Tuesday,March8 Wednesday,March9 Thursday,March10 Friday, March 11 Saturday,March12 Sunday,March13 6:30 PM 5:45 PM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 11:30 AM 11:45 PM Eye in the Sky It Snows All the Time OFF Academy OFF Academy Sabali When Voices Meet Page 8 Page 10 Page 29 Page 29 Page 16 Page 22 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 8:00 PM 6:00 PM 5:45 PM 5:30 PM Short Film Block 6 Short Film Block 10 Short Film Block 1 Short Film Block 4 Cheeseburger in Paradise Good Ol’ Boy International Documentaries Page 24 Page 34 Opening Party Page 15 Page 40 Page 52 Awards Ceremony 6:00 PM 6:00 PM 5:45 PM 1:15 PM 2:15 PM Writer’s Theater Short Film Block 3 Rwanda & Juliet Man Vs. Snake Keep in Touch Documentary Page 7 Page 32 Page 21 Page 22 Page 18 Narrative Feature 2:30 PM 6:15 PM 6:15 PM 6:00 PM Short Film Block 7 2:30 PM God Knows Where I Am No Resolution Nebraska Spotlight The Million Dollar Duck Animated I Dream of an Omaha Where... Page 20 Page 11 Page 12 OFF Academy Page 20 Page 42 8:15 PM 8:25 PM 8:00 PM 3:45 PM Party Short Film Block 2 4:30 PM Llama Nation The Invitation Once in a Lew Moon Short Film Block Nebraska Documentary Awards Ceremony Page 30 Page 21 Page 8 Page 11 Special Screening 8:15 PM 5:00 PM 8:30 PM 8:30 PM 5:30 PM Short Film Block 5 Short Film Block 8 Writer’s Theater Black Luck Stereotypically You Nebraska Shorts 1 Comedy The Lobster Page 10 Page 14 Page 36 Page 46 Page 9 8:45 PM 8:45 PM 8:30 PM 5:45 PM How to Plan an Orgy 7:30 PM Hunky Dory Baby, Baby, Baby Coming Through The Rye in a Small Town Closing Night OFFice Party Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 10:00 PM 6:15 PM 10:00 PM 10:00 PM Ring the Bell Party Take Me to the River Funny Bone Party Bravo! Party! Julio’s West Page 9 7:45 PM Short Film Block 9 Contents Nebraska Shorts 2 Page 50 Writer’s Theater 07 8:30 PM Special Screenings 08 Trivia Night Nebraska Spotlight 10 Page 17 Feature Films 14 8:45 PM Documentary Films 20 West of Redemption Page 18 Short Programs 24 OFF Academy 29 10:00 PM Conference Schedule 55 Harrington’s Saturday Night Party 04 The 11th Annual Omaha Film Festival March 8-13, 2016 05 Writer’s Theater March 9, 2016 6:00PM March 8-13, 2016 07 Special Screenings Eye In The Sky The Invitation Take Me To The River The Lobster Tuesday March 8 at 6:30PM Friday March 11 at 8:00PM Saturday March 12 at 6:15PM Sunday March 13 at 5:30PM Rated R for violence and language USA - 100 minutes USA - 85 minutes Rated R sexual content including dialogue, Director: Karyn Kusama Writer/Director: Matt Sobel and some violence U.K. - 102 minutes Writers: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi Writer: Roberto Patino Director: Gavin Hood Ireland | UK | Greece | France | Netherlands | Producer: Billy Mulligan Writer: Guy Hibbert Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy USA - 118 minutes Executive Producer: Nick Case, Hisami Producer: Colin Firth, Ged Doherty, David Blanchard, Michiel Huisman, Emayatzy Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Kuroiwa Lancaster Corinealdi, Lindsay Burdge, John Carroll Writer: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou Lynch, Mike Doyle, Michelle Krusiec, Marieh Cast: TLogan Miller, Robin Weigert, Ursula Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jacqueline Delfino, Jay Larson Parker, Richard Schiff, Josh Hamilton, Azura Rickman, Barkhad Abdi Abrahams, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jessica Skye, Ashley Gerasimovich, Elizabeth Franz http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400463/ Barden, John C. Reilly http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2057392/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3142366/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/ https://www.facebook.com/ Two years after a tragic loss ended his http://www.lobsterfilm.co.uk/ Complications arise when a lieutenant TakeMetotheRiverFilm/ relationship, Will accepts an invitation general (Alan Rickman) and a colonel from his ex-wife to attend a mysterious In a dystopian near future, single (Helen Mirren) order a drone missile A Californian teenager’s plan to come dinner party held at his former house. people, according to the laws of The strike to take out a group of terrorists out at his Nebraskan family reunion As the evening progresses, the dread City, are taken to The Hotel, where in Nairobi, Kenya. gets derailed when a bloodstain on his bubbling under the surface is slowly they are obliged to find a romantic young cousin’s dress makes him the un- revealed in this superbly directed partner in forty-five days or are witting suspect of abuse. thriller. transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. 08 The 11th Annual Omaha Film Festival March 8-13, 2016 09 Nebraska Spotlight It Snows all the Time Black Luck No Resolution Once in a Lew Moon Wednesday March 9 at 5:45PM Thursday March 10 at 8:30PM Friday March 11 at 6:00PM Saturday March 12 at 3:45PM Director: Jay Giannone Director: Jason Levering, David Weiss Writer/Director: Tim Kasher Director: Lonnie Senstock Writer: Eric Watson, Jay Giannone Writer: Jason Levering, Garrett Sheeks Producer: Chevy Kozisek Writer: Lonnie Senstock, Chance Williams (screenplay), Erich Hover (story) Producer: David M. Weiss, Jason Levering, Executive Producer: Brian Young Producer: Lynn Bartak, Jennifer Pederson Producer: Erich Hover, Jay Giannone Garrett Sheeks, Aaron Smith, Associate Executive Producer: Drew Vamosi, Chance Cast: Maura Kidwell, Layne Manzer, Erin Producers, Tim Welch, Dr. Thomas Huerter, Williams Cast: Brett Cullen, Erich Hover, Sterling O’Shea Sean Nohrenberg, Matt Patterson, Tom Sain Knight, Lesley Ann Warren, Taryn Manning, Cast: Lew Hunter, Pamela Hunter, Francis http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5012620/ John Beasley, Erin Cahill, Jay Giannone, Cast: Garrett Sheeks, Karrie Bauman, Jeff Ford Coppola, Patty Duke, Oliver Stone, www.facebook.com/noresolutionfilm/ Tatyana Ali, Slaine, Trevor Penick Gamble, Jeff Luby, Jason Levering, Aaron Bruce Joel Rubin, Hal Ackerman Sailors, Jeremy Caniglia, Jazmyne Van http://www.itsnowsallthetime.com/ http://www.onceinalewmoon.com Houten, Konrad Case, Craig Hoffman, Collin Cary, a shiftless, “never was” local http://www.imdb.com/itsnowsallthetime http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4036906/ Dunn, Royce Kensinger, Myriddin McHugh, musician, struggles with the onset Christopher Levering, Jeffery Blum, Ethan of adulthood, railing against his dull, When Paul is diagnosed with young Rand, Cheri Bloomingdale, Kiera Levering, nine-to-five desk job and impending Lew Hunter came from a poor onset Frontotemporal Dementia at 58, Justin Milani, Crystal Milani, Cara Rockwell, marriage to his pregnant fiancé, Jean. household and big dreams to make his family comes closer together than Rick Barker, Tim Welch, Lacee Newbanks, This resistance culminates on New it in Hollywood.