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Brent Spencer

Omaha Movie Examiner

Brent Spencer is a published fiction writer and screenwriter with production credits. He teaches creative writing at Creighton University in Omaha, where he also coordinates the Film Studies Minor. He can be reach here.

George Clooney is Up in the Air

(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young) A web site for the new George Clooney movie, filmed partly in Omaha, has been posted, including a trailer for the movie.The story, based on a novel by Walter Kirn, focuses...

Nebraska filmmakers urge tax incentives

A coalition of filmmakers has met with Governor Dave Heineman and Nebraska state legislators to promote tax incentives for filmmakers who bring their projects to the state.Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) and Mark Hoeger, president of the Nebraska...

Cloris comes to Omaha

Impresario Bruce Crawford will delight audiences with another in his series of Omaha movie events. This time it's Mel Brooks' 1974 classic Young Frankenstein. Crawford's special guest for the evening will be award-winning actor Cloris Leachman, who...

Cloris Leachman comes to Omaha

Impresario Bruce Crawford will delight audiences with another in his series of Omaha movie events. This time it's Mel Brooks' 1974 classic Young Frankenstein. Crawford's special guest for the evening will be award-winning actor Cloris Leachman, who...

Vision Maker Film Festival

The 3rd Biennial Vision Maker Film Festival will take place October 30-November 5, 2009. Co-sponsored by the Native American Public Telecommunications, Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, and the Sheldon Art Museum.One of the features to be...

Iowa suspends tax incentive program for filmmakers

Thomas Wheeler, Manager of the Iowa Film Office, has been fired by Governor Chet Culver, who has called for an investigation by the state auditor and attorney general, as well as the Revenue Department, into alleged abuses in the program...

Lights! Camera! Me!

I spent a few heady minutes under the bright lights on Thursday as a featured extra on the set of “Lucky,” the dark comedy being shot in Council Bluffs and Omaha by Ten/Four Pictures.As the driver...

"Barstool Cowboy" gets distributor

Mark Thimijan, of Lincoln, has reached an agreement with Celebrity Video to distribute "Barstool Cowboy," the indie movie he wrote, produced, and directed. The central character of the movie is Mick, a depressed cowboy played by Broken Bow...

Now showing--"For Love of Amy"

A dying man’s best friend promises to take care of the man’s widow and daughter. But when the widow becomes incapacitated, the friend, an African-American, becomes the Caucasian daughter’s only support. For Love...

LEO comes to town

LEO Films, a Los-Angeles-based film production company founded in 1991, has pulled up stakes and relocated to Council Bluffs, Iowa, one of the latest film companies to take advantage of Iowa’s generous tax incentives for filmmakers...

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