Omaha Film Festival 2009

October 1929, in a small town fringing an advancing metropolis a love triangle propels passionate activities. Anna is modern, cool; Vince is big, smooth; Trevor is small, smitten. The two asymmetric males compete for Anna's attention through shameless and shameful acts. Dreams and dreads ignite teetering bulbs of love and pride.

In a military research facility, a stern female officer enters a small observation room where two middle aged scientists work. She demands one of the scientists accompany her immediately. Despite his protestations about leaving only one person in the room, she outranks him, and is perfectly happy to shoot him if he refuses. With no option the scientist is accompanied out of the room, leaving is colleague alone.Once they are both gone, the second scientist activates a computer controlled door lock, and stands looking through an observation window into a filthy tiled room. From behind a heavy door inside the room strange webbed hand emerges and a female face appears out of the darkness. His breathing quickening, the scientist watches as the eel girl emerges out of the room, completely naked, and walks around to and then gets into a large filthy bath, filled with thick black slime.Distracted by her vital signs on the computer he doesn't notice her climb out of the bath and press herself up against the window watching him. His desires get the better of him. He opens a secure door to her room, where she is waiting for him. He goes takes hold of her, leans in to kiss her and, quick as lighting her jaw extends and she swallows his head, then lifts him into the air and swallows him whole. She vomits up his clothes, and climbs back into the bath, caressing his still moving form inside her giant distended belly.

This is a film about one girls journey to her secret hiding spot, where her and Astronaut Henry can travel to the stars.

An empty cola can becomes the obsessive focal point for a disparate group of passengers on a crowded rush hour subway train.

Hanna's life has always been about cooking and food, whether she wanted it to be or not. The death of her domineering father and the subsequent selling of the family restaurant, thrusts her into the position she's been trained for. The regulars aren't satisfied with her twist on the family recipes they had come to love. The new owner threatens to fire her if she can't give the customers what they want. Hanna must choose between returning to traditions she's trying to bury or abandon her life's work of being the chef her daddy always wanted her to be.

First Time Long Time is a comedic look at the unintended consequences that sometimes come from acting on our deepest impulses. In a hilarious and sometimes touching performance, John Savage plays "Peter"? a middle aged man who has had recent set backs both personally and professionally. His latest personal failure with recent girlfriend "Maggie" (Amanda Plummer), leads him to try a popular erectile dysfunction drug. In his desperation for things to work out, Peter takes too many pills and finds himself in the throes of a humiliating case of Priapism. As Peter struggles with his plight, he realizes through a series of events that perhaps all may not be what it seems and that he should not lament his condition but embrace it.

When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy, sustainably-produced food. Fortunately for America, an alternative emerged from the counter-culture of California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where a group of political anti-corporate protesters--led by Alice Waters--voiced their dissent by creating a food chain outside of the conventional system. The unintended result was the birth of a vital local-sustainable-organic food movement which has brought back taste and variety to our tables. FOOD FIGHT is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness.

After 44 years in the institution, Bill’s life was about to begin… “A Friend Indeed – The Bill Sackter Story” is an inspiring new documentary showing how a forgotten man and an uncommon friendship shattered the world’s perceptions of people with disabilities. Bill Sackter’s life story was made famous by the award winning made- for-tv movie “Bill” (1981) starring Mickey Rooney as Bill, and Dennis Quaid as the young filmmaker Barry Morrow who had befriended Bill in 1972 and began filming their relationship and adventures. Now get to know the real people behind the story in this engaging documentary featuring actual film and video footage and photographs of Bill Sackter himself, along with new interviews with the people closest to Bill, in an uplifting true story that has been over 35 years in the making! With a harmonica, a warm cup of coffee and a positive embrace of life, get to know the real Bill Sackter, an international hero for people with disabilities, and witness how a little friendship and attention transformed Bill’s life and everyone around him. See Lane Wyrick’s powerful new documentary “A Friend Indeed – The Bill Sackter Story” – voted the #1 Audience Favorite in both the Hardacre Film Festival and the Kansas International Film Festival. A highly entertaining and engaging feature-length documentary filled with laughter, insight, and emotion (a box of Kleenex is highly recommended)! Learn more at http://www.BillSackter.com