omahafilmfestival2019

(Drama, History. Thriller)
Rated R

Director: Anthony Maras
Writer: John Collee, Anthony Maras
Cast: Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi

The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.

(Drama)
USA - 95 minutes
100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Writer/Director: Kent Jones
Producer: Luca Borghese, Ben Howe, Caroline Kaplan, Oren Moverman
Cast: Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Somerville, Glynnis O'Connor, Paul McIsaac

For Diane (Mary Kay Place), everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen, and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son (Jake Lacy) from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can’t forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart. Built around an extraordinary, fearless performance from Mary Kay Place, the narrative debut from Kent Jones is a profound, beautifully human portrait of a woman rifling through the wreckage of her life in search of redemption.

Scheduled to Appear
Writer/Director/Animator: Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton is considered the King of Indie Animation, and is the first person to hand draw an entire animated feature film. Bill moved to New York City in 1968 and began his career creating cartoons for publications such as the New York Times.

In 1987, he was nominated for an Oscar® for his short Your Face. In 2005, Bill received another Oscar® nomination, for his short Guard Dog. Push Comes to Shove won the 1991 Palme d'Or in Cannes.

He's made seven all animated feature films.

Short Films to screen in this program with q&a after:
"Trump Bites”
"Gonna Be Great”
"Your Face”
"Guard Dog”
“Tupelo"
"Homer's Face" (Simpsons couch gag)
"Tiffany the Whale”
"Cop Dog”
"Sex & Violence III"

(Documentary)
USA - 91 minutes
Rated PG

100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: John Chester
Writer: John Chester, Mark Monroe
Cast: John Chester, Molly Chester

Two dreamers and a dog embark on an odyssey to bring harmony to their lives and to the land. As their plan to create perfect harmony takes a series of wild turns, they will have to reach a far greater understanding of the intricacies and wisdom of nature, and of life itself.

(Drama)
USA/United Kingdom/Australia - 106 minutes

Director: Michael Engler
Writer: Julian Fellowes, Based on the novel by Laura Moriarty
Producer: Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Luca Scalisi, Rose Ganguzza, Kelly Carmichael, Gary Hamilton, Elizabeth McGovern
Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Haley Lu Richardson, Geza Rohrig, Victoria Hill, Miranda Otto, Blythe Danner, Campbell Scott

Louise Brooks the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Lousie (Haley Lu Richardson). It’s a story full of surprises—about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.

(Romance)
USA - 94 minutes
NR
Filmmaker in attendance!

Writer/Director: Noble Jones
Cast: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner, Derek Cecil

Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff.