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Experience the 2024 Omaha Film Festival and its showcase films with narration by Photo Editor Daytin Inserra.

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‘Diary of Michael Shiner’ is fourth historical drama by Animating History

There are few known diaries kept by enslaved people, but Michael Shiner, who lived from 1805 to 1880 in the Washington, D.C., area, kept a meticulous and expansive recording of events he witnessed throughout his life.

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Several Omahans are featured in the project that producer says was informed by an estimated 100 interviews

OMAHA — Burned into James Freeman’s memory is the sight, 58 years ago, of an ongoing string of for-sale signs posted in front of homes along a boulevard on the north side of Nebraska’s biggest city.

The Georgia native had just arrived in Omaha, recruited from college to be part of the first National Teachers Corps class. Freeman, who had marched alongside civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, asked the driver about all the yard signs.

He was told that Black families had purchased houses in the area and white people were moving out. 

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Tuesday marks the kickoff of the 19th annual Omaha Film Festival.

98 films are being showcased this year, ranging from short films to documentaries to feature films from around the world. Included in this year’s lineup is a short film that’s been nominated for an Oscar: “Red White and Blue,” starring Brittany Snow.

Filmmakers from most of the movies will be on site at their premiere, making it a more immersive experience for audience members.

“If the filmmaker is in attendance, they’ll get up for a Q&A afterwards and you have a real opportunity to interact with that filmmaker directly after the film they just saw, and then that film maker is going to be here for the week. So you’ll see them in the hallway and you’ll see them at their after parties,” says Executive Director of the festival, Marc Longbrake.

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Filmmaker Tony Bonacci previously appeared on the show when his short film “The Headliner” made festival rounds in 2018. Bonacci was adamant he would turn that story into a feature alongside the short’s writer, Christine Burright, and its star, Darrick Silkman.

Several years and one pandemic later, he has. Bonacci’s feature film debut, also titled “The Headliner,” premieres at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 2 at Aksarben Cinema, part of the Omaha Film Festival’s Nebraska Spotlight program.

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A documentary that delves into the practice of “redlining” is set to premiere next month at the Omaha Film Festival.

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OMAHA, Neb. —

The Omaha Film Festival announced its lineup for the 19th annual event.

The festival runs from Feb. 27 through March 3.

There are multiple categories with a lot of talented faces behind them.

Narrative features:

• Aligned by Apollo Bakopoulos
• Brave the Dark by Damian Harris
• Don’t Get Eaten by George and Joe Simon
• Guacamole Yesterdays by Jordan Noel
• The Headliner by Tony Bonacci
• Junction by Bryan Greenberg
• No Right Way by Chelsea Bo
• Ramona at Midlife by Brooke Berman
• Scrap by Vivian Kerr
• Step Over by Lorenzo Borghini
• Tokyo Cowboy Marc Marriott
• Two Lives in Pittsburgh by Brian Silverman
• Wait for Me by Keith Farrell

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The Omaha Film Festival is thrilled to announce the line-up of feature films, documentaries, short films and Nebraska-made projects in a Virtual Release Party live stream on Facebook at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 2, offering an exclusive preview of the film extravaganza awaiting attendees of the 6-day event at the Aksarben Cinema, Feb. 27 – March 3.

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