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


Made for Public Television
The following entries are presented for this category.

Bombers on the Prairie
producers Les Kinderknecht and Jason Kromer
Run Time: 59 minutes

Boeing developed the B-29 as a long-range strategic bomber, building the planes in facilities in Wichita and in Seattle. More than 50 years after the end of World War II, the B-29 continues to impact citizens of central and western Kansas through the B-29 Memorial at the old Army Air Field in Great Bend.

Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie
John Altman and Aimée Larrabee
Run Time: 56 minutes, 46 seconds

This hauntingly beautiful film tells the story of the disappearing prairie, and how scientists warn of the implications (the loss of national heritage and nature's most important secrets to producing food and cleansing the atmosphere).

On & Off the Res' with Charlie Hill
Sandy and Yasu Osawa
Run Time: 56 minutes, 40 seconds

Laugh your head off and have your consciousness raised about American Indian issues as we are treated to a visit with American Indian comedian, Charlie Hill, and his friends, Floyd Westerman, Dick Gregory, Vine Deloria and others.

Sun River Homestead
Maggie Carey
Run Time: 26 minutes, 40 seconds

This story depicts the story of women who accepted the challenges of homesteading and who forever staked a claim to the West--and juxtaposes it with Esther Strasburger's legacy, a great granddaughter who still lives near Simms and fro whom the land and its rewards are a way of life.

Tuna
Robert Byington

Tuna plots six individual through-lines, of people on their lunch hour in Los Angeles, stuck in their cars. There are two delusional mid-level executives taking their boss to lunch in a limo, a man offering a woman a promotion in exchange for the usual favors, a Prozac-zonked, divorced father with his two cheeky children, a man who retrieves shopping carts professionally, two pot heads looking for weed, and a delivery driver selling wares off of his truck.