California Premiere! Newport Beach Film Festival
We are really excited about being selected for the Newport Beach Film Festival! For the whole crew this really means a lot. Everyone who worked on the film is based in southern California and we can't wait to make our California premiere at Newport Beach Film Festival. The film continues to make headway on the festival circuit and we are just so proud! Thank you Newport Beach. Will be screening April 27th at 7:30pm. Hope to see you there.
Official Selection: Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
Looks like we will be headed to the Sierra Nevada's. What a beautiful setting for a film festival, honored and proud to be part of the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival! The festival runs from May 27th - to May 31st. Our screen date and time will be May 28th at 7:30. Thank you Mammoth Lakes.
ASU Human Rights Film Festival
What a wonderful honor, we are proud to be taking part in the Arizona State University Human Rights Film Festival! The festival takes place at the Armstrong Hall - Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law and our screen date and time is April 18th at 2:00pm.
Official Selection: Julian Dubuque
We are proud to announce that Omo Child: The River and the Bush is headed to Iowa for the Julian Dubuque International Film Festival which runs from April 23rd to the 26th. Our screen date and time will be April 24th at 6:00pm.
Official Selection: Ft. Myers Beach
Attention Florida...if you missed us at Palm Beach then check out Omo Child: The River and the Bush at Fort Myers Beach Film Festival which runs from April 22nd to the 26th. Our screen date and time will be April 23rd at 8:45pm. Hope to see you there!
WINNER: Palm Beach International Film Festival!
Proud and honored to announce Omo Child: The River and the Bush has won best documentary at the 29th Palm Beach International Film Festival! For the record - to date we have been in four festivals, won three awards, two for best documentary. It's humbling...truly humbling. When we finished this film and started to enter it into film festivals we had no idea what to expect. The response has been overwhelming and we are so happy that audiences are responding to the film. We hope it brings a lot of eyes and awareness to Omo Child and the work that Lale Labuko continues today in the Omo
HotDocs – Omo Child: The River and the Bush goes International!
Omo Child: The River and the Bush will make it's international premier at the world renowned HotDocs film festival in Toronto, Ontario! We can not begin to express how excited we are to be honored with this selection. Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival and will present its 22nd annual edition from April 23–May 3, 2015. An outstanding selection of 210 documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Our screening dates are - April 27th @6:30, April 29th @2:00, and May 1st @9:30. Click here to see
Special Recognition: One In A Million…
Omo Child: The River and the Bush has taken home another honor from our second festival! Sun Valley International Film Festival has recognized us with a Special Recognition: One in a Million Documentary. Thank you Sun Valley! You don't know what it means to all of the crew and most of all to the children of Omo Child who we hope will benefit the most from any awards or recognition the film receives. All profits from the film go directly to the children after all!
Winner: Best Documentary Washington DC Indy!
We won our World Premiere! Thank you DC Independent, what an honor. Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who put on a great festival. We proud to have had our World Premiere with you.
Cleveland International Film Fest!
It's official, Omo Child: The River and the Bush has been selected for the 39th Cleveland International Film Festival! We are proud, excited, honored...simply humbled that our movie is making an impact. The film has been selected for the "Greg Gund Standing Up" Competition which focuses on films with the mission to change the world and celebrates the spirit of activism and the fight for social justice. It highlights personal stories featuring individuals who set out to teach lessons on how to live a better life. One of the aspects all these films share is the impact they make on viewers lo
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