The Omaha Film Festival will be 2/23-3/1/09. We will screen the films in the following categories: Narrative Feature, Documentary, Short Film (under 25 mins), Animated Shorts, and OFF the EDGE (dark, horror films). We do receive submissions from close to 30 different countries.
The 3rd annual Omaha Film Festival was held on February 16th-24th, 2008 kicking off on February 16th and 17th with a Filmmakers/Screenwriters Conference at Creighton University, which featured discussion panels with Hollywood screenwriters Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Jon Bokenkamp (Perfect Stranger, Taking Lives), and Josh Stolberg (Good Luck Chuck, Piranha 3D, Man-Witch), a 2-day screenwriting workshop with two of the top screenwriting coaches in the country, Jeff Kitchen and Lew Hunter, and a closing discussion panel with Hollywood editors Tom Elkins (Red Eye, The Missing, Wanted) and Oscar winner Mike Hill (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The DaVinci Code). The conference was followed by a week of film screenings from February 18th – 24th at the Westwood 8 Cinema. Films shown at the 2008 festival featured such stars as Woody Harrelson, Helen Hunt, Dennis Hopper, Stephen Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Tom Sizemore, and Charlize Theron.
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