2007 Film Festival October 12 & 13

Part of our program will be to show a selection of shorts from the 2007 Rural Route Film Festival. This festival was “created to highlight works that deal with rural people and places.” We will have a speaker/director from this film festival present. They put together selections from the festival to show in other cities and small towns all around the world. The shorts could be about an organic turnip farm in West Virginia or a personal/experimental work about life in a small town in Wisconsin. Movie goers will get to see a more diverse array of film (short films, documentaries, experimental genres) as an alternative to the mainstream Hollywood releases that can be seen anywhere.

Socializing and food will round out our weekend. We will have receptions in the theater on Friday and Saturday evening with our guests.

The Purpose/Goals of the Midwest Theater Spotlight Nebraska Film Festival:

• Develop and Enhance the Historic Preservation of the Midwest Theater and promote the theater
• Encourage and showcase independent and experimental film art and to promote film as art, and to offer educational outreach;
• Promote film as an art form and to provide the community with an outlet to seek alternative forms of film;
• Encourage the creation and production of films and videos;
• Promote interest in films produced in Nebraska or connected to Nebraska;
• Provide a venue which will attract consumers into Western Nebraska;
• Stimulate an appetite in the regional community for independent films.