Sundance 2024: Omaha, Seeds, The Dating Game

A Brigham Young University graduate and longtime Utah resident, Cole Webley’s repeatedly testified how much it means to  have his debut feature premiere here after years of rejected shorts. The Utah runs deep in Omaha, whose opening minutes seem to take place in, if not the exact neighborhood, a dead ringer for the suburban setting of fellow BYU alum and screenwriter Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers. One morning a father (John Magaro) wakes adolescent daughter Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and even younger son Charlie (Wyatt Solis), piles them and adorable golden retriever Rex into the car, and gets […] The post Sundance 2024: Omaha, Seeds, The Dating Game first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

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Sundance 2024: Omaha, Seeds, The Dating Game
A white man, two white children, and a golden retriever are sitting in a car.

A Brigham Young University graduate and longtime Utah resident, Cole Webley’s repeatedly testified how much it means to  have his debut feature premiere here after years of rejected shorts. The Utah runs deep in Omaha, whose opening minutes seem to take place in, if not the exact neighborhood, a dead ringer for the suburban setting of fellow BYU alum and screenwriter Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers. One morning a father (John Magaro) wakes adolescent daughter Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and even younger son Charlie (Wyatt Solis), piles them and adorable golden retriever Rex into the car, and gets […] The post Sundance 2024: Omaha, Seeds, The Dating Game first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.