omahafilmfestival2019

USA - 94 minutes
Filmmakers and cast in attendance
In presentation with
Creighton University: Office of Institutional Diversity & Inclusion,
Department of Journalism, Media & Computing, and
Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions

Limited All Access and All Films pass seating available so arrive early!
No advanced ticket sales. Individual tickets may be available at showtime based on capacity.

Director: Clay Tweel
Writer: Damien Belliveau, Tim Grant, Ryan Johnston, Steven Klein, Clay Tweel
Producer: Ryan Johnston, p.g.a. & Steven Klein, p.g.a.
Cast: Darcell Trotter, Darrell Trotter, Wayne Brown, Barbara Robinson

OUT OF OMAHA is an intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, two young black men coming of age in North Omaha. Director Clay Tweel met the Trotters when they were seventeen and filmed them over a period of eight years. By intimately portraying the twins’ hopes and struggles – and the love and help they give and get along the way – the film examines just how much it can take to overcome disadvantages rooted in historic injustice. Connecting us deeply to its heroes, OUT OF OMAHA takes concepts like inequality, racial disparity, and economic opportunity out of the abstract, showing what these large-scale phenomena look like when they are experienced by individual human beings.