Welcome to the 2021 Omaha Film Festival Writers Theatre! Every year in an effort to showcase our screenplay finalists we bring in actors and do live staged readings of selections from each of their scripts. This year with the virtual festival we decided to film the readings and provide them virtually. In addition to the readings we also had a chance to have a Zoom chat with each of the screenwriters so those conversations are also included in this program. We hope you enjoy them!

A rip into a Parallel Universe has opened above a small Colorado town dropping a corpse from the sky and dumping a German U-Boat into a forest. This rip has reinvigorated shady industrialist Frank DeWitt who rules the town with an iron fist. What a first day for new sheriff Jaimie and her new to town undersheriff, Azmi.&nbsp;

Writers Theatre - Second Crossing

When her mother dies, a smart and surly midwestern teen winds up on the doorstep of The Clutch - a shabby, glitter-bombed San Francisco drag club owned by her estranged father and his wild, semi-psychic, supergay lover. Baptized by fire into a mid-90s community of AIDS survivors, artists, and drag royalty, nothing she believes about family and home will ever be the same.&nbsp;

Writers Theatre - Grace in the Clutch

The Lighthouse is an hour-long drama set in and around the Sacramento River Delta – one of the few remaining swampy, rural, isolated places in Northern California. Led by an enigmatic preacher, The Lighthouse church has slipped off the grid and out of sight of the authorities after being denied religious tax exemption. When a woman affiliated with the church goes missing and later turns up dead, detective Sam Powell is called in from a Sacramento PD unit that specializes in cults. Sam's compulsive vices and dark past threaten to overtake her considerable investigative talents. The Lighthouse is about faith: how we reject it outright or surrender to it completely, how we pervert and distort it for our own ends. How it can utterly destroy us and fully resurrect us.&nbsp;

Writers Theatre - The Lighthouse

Writers Theatre - Second Crossing Q&A

Writers Theatre - Grace in the Clutch Q&A

Writers Theatre - The Lighthouse Q&A

Writers Theatre - Teleplays

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The 2021 Omaha Film Festival highlights Narrative Feature Films, Documentaries, Short Films, Animated Short Films, and Nebraska Short Films from March 2-21. Scroll through our selections, read synopses, watch trailers, and plan your festival! 

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