July 12-29, 2001
Co-presented by the NEBRASKA FILM OFFICE


Nebraska Films
The following entries are presented for this category.

Carpula
Ross Brockley
Run Time: 84 minutes

An offbeat film about a fish.

Faust/The Lost Feminine
John Hansen
Run Time: 17 minutes

This short film dramatizes Faust's painful emotional dilemma and his foolish and damaging attempt to resolve it by vanquishing a young woman.

Life is a Sweet
James Duff
Run Time: 17 minutes

Chocoholics unite! Julie Taylor must overcome a chronic sweet tooth to earn a promotion and find love where she least expects it.

Nebraska Supersonic
Jeremy Lerman
Run Time: 75 minutes

In Omaha, three slackers--all sub-par French majors--start a business that should not succeed on the vast Great Plains: a bicycle courier service.

Portal Vitae
Kathleen Carr
Run Time: 7 minutes

A guardian angel helps a woman find acceptance in her death as she is led on an enchanting dark pathway to heaven.

Surf's Up at McConaughy
Doug McMains
Run Time: 16 minutes, 30 seconds

There is in development a feature length script called "Flatwater Shoot". It is a story set in current day Nebraska about an Omaha based photographer on assignment in the Sandhills. Unknown to him, he falls into the middle of a current day range war over water rights. This is a character study of Waldo Still, the protagonist.

The Private Public
Dana Altman
Run Time: 90 minutes

Zeke and Auggie are college senior classmates who have never really met, but spend a night together when a bar scuffle breaks out and mistakenly lands them in jail. They soon find themselves submerged in local stardom after teaming up for a locally broadcast mini-documentary that reveals a female friend's lesbian lifestyle and their mutual interest in her. But stardom places Zeke and Auggie in the greatest struggle of their lives when their second documentary, which exposes a nationally acclaimed professor as a sexual offender, is met by opposition from the university.

The Rock That Made Us
Daniel B. Iske
Run Time: 86 minutes

Bound together by their love for music, five creative and unique individuals help each other to overcome their struggles in today's diverse and controversial society. Though the laughter and defeat, they are able to form not just a single musical identity, but also an everlasting bond that continually pulls them through.

The Walk
Scott Pittock
Run Time: 17 minutes

A cold and empty night is the setting for one man's apocalyptic journey into one's reality. This dark psychological tale follows the man and his meeting with an enigmatic woman.