Mato Oput, the backpack journalism film, has been accepted into the Omaha Film Festival in the "Omaha Films" Category. The film was selected from hundreds of submissions.
Mato Oput is a documentary about the people of Uganda recovering from the civil war that lasted over 20 years. The backpack journalism group talked to church leaders and people who were most affected by the way. Those people who were displaced from their homes, children who were forced to become child soldiers, and even a bishop forced into exile. It was filmed on the Backpack Journalism trip during the summer of 2011.
The Omaha Film Festival takes place at Great Escape Cinema 16, located at 7440 Crown Point Avenue in Omaha, Nebr. from March 7-11, 2012. Tickets can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com.
Watch the trailer of the Mato Oput film at vimeo.com. For more information, see backpack.creighton.edu.
Mato Oput was also chosen as an official selection of the 2011 Peace on Earth Film Festival and won 1st Place in the Documentary block and selected as Best in Show at the Elkhorn Valley Broadcast Education Association D7 Film and Media Conference.
Tim Guthrie, one of the creators of the Mato Oput film, also had his animation "I Watch You Paint," also accepted into the Omaha Film Festival. The project, based on the poem by Albert Garcia, was realized for Prairie Schooner Publishing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to help launch the digital archive of the entire Prairie Schooner collection. The film was wholly directed, shot, edited and rotoscoped by Guthrie.
"I Watch You Paint" can be seen at vimeo.com.