Marc and Jeremy remind everyone that the CALL FOR ENTRIES for the 2010 Omaha Film Festival are still going on.

Also, Jeremy breaks some news on the podcast.

Marc and Jeremy announce the CALL FOR ENTRIES for the 2010 Omaha Film Festival.  Submit your feature films, documentaries, short films and OFF the EDGE films, as well as your feature length and short length screenplays.

And since they were sitting in front of microphones anyway, they decided to chat about some of the summer movies that are out now.

Marc and Jeremy discuss the fourth annual Omaha Film Festival.

As for our award winners and all of the filmmakers that submitted and attended, I want to thank each of you as well. Picking winners is always the most difficult thing to do at the festival, and gladly some of that decision is shared with our audiences in the form of the audience choice prizes. This years’ audience choice awards went to:

GRANNY GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY directed by Nicky Phelan – short film
A FRIEND INDEED–THE BILL SACKTER STORY directed by Lane Wyrick – documentary
TOUCHING HOME directed by Logan and Noah Miller – Feature Film

A special award was given this year to the short film for best Cinematography which was a $500 certificate for Eastman/Kodak film which went to the short film:
VALLEY OF THE MOON directed by John Monteleone

Omaha Film Festival jury prizes were also given in six different categories to the following films:
AGENT 5: A NIGHT IN THE LAST LIFE OF directed by Matthew Desotell - OFF the EDGE
VARMINTS directed by Marc Craste – Animated Short
COONS directed by Chris Cloyd – Nebraska Short
SUGAR directed by Alex Beh – Short Film
PHANTOM PUNCH directed by Robert Townsend – Feature Film
THE PROVIDENCE EFFECT directed by Rollin Binzer – Documentary

Due to some very generous donations and sponsors, we gave out over $14.000 worth of prizes during our awards ceremony so another huge thank you to all of our sponsors. And yes, it is frustrating having to give all of those prizes away!

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Marc, Jeremy and Julie travel down to the February NIFP.org meeting and take a few minutes to interview a couple of the filmmakers that have films in the NE short film block at the 2009 Omaha Film Festival.

The first interview is with Kevin Pope and Kerri Knight from the short film “Heart.” Kevin was the writer/producer and Kerri was the cinematographer.

Interview number two is with Darcy Lueking, writer/director of the UNL student film “Minds on Men.”

Both interviews provide insights into the creative process, from concept to creation and ultimately having a finished project that will get screened before hundreds of festival attendees.

For more information about the festival, go to www.omahafilmfestival.org.  Feel free to sign up, create a screen name and start putting your festival calendar together.  It’s a great way to interact with the festival, filmmakers and other film fans.

Marc and Jeremy sit down with Chris Topler Ahrens and Christian Champoux, writers and directors of the short film Richard Dooling’s Bush Pigs which will screen at the Omaha Film Festival on Tuesday, February 24th at 6:00pm, and again on Friday, February 27th at 8:30pm at the Great Escape Stadium 16 Theatre as a part of the Nebraska Short Film category.

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They talk about the creative process, from adapting a short story to a screenplay, to casting, preproduction, filming and post production.

For more information about the festival, go to www.omahafilmfestival.org.  Feel free to sign up, create a screen name and start putting your festival calendar together.  It’s a great way to interact with the festival, filmmakers and other film fans.

Marc and Jeremy talk about all of the features and documentaries that are in competition at the 2009 Omaha Film Festival.  Be sure to check out the website at www.omahafilmfestival.org for a complete schedule of films and to purchase tickets and passes.

We're back, starting fresh in the new year, and we're less than two months away from OFF'09, the fourth annual Omaha Film Festival.

Marc and Jeremy are once again joined by Jason to talk about the latest preparations being made for the festival and look forward to being able to make some film and interview announcements coming up over the next month.

Stay tuned...it's going to be a fun year.

Marc and Jeremy talk behind the scenes about the upcoming Omaha Film Festival.

Marc travels to the sixth annual Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines, IA with The HIT, the short film he directed and records a conversation after the screening with writer/producer Chris Zech, casting assistant Julie Matthews, and actors Lindsey Jo Clemenson and Garrett Sheeks.  Marc, Chris and Julie spent two days at the festival and had a great time watching films and talking to the other filmmakers in attendance.

The HIT walked away with a Certificate of Distinctive Achievement in the Editing Category, so props to Johnnie Travis for doing a great job on the edit.

Wild Rose Independent Film Festival

Marc and Jeremy talk with local screenwriter Mike Comstock about the screenwriting process.  You can’t have films without a screenplay, right?  Check out the show and get a behind-the-scenes look at the screenwriting process.