On Saturday, July 16, 2022, we welcomed four prominent women from the field of documentary film — Ramona Díaz, Grace Lee, Yoruba Richen & Lucy Walker — for a fundraiser in support of our nonprofit. In attendance were Film Streams supporters as well as groups of Omaha women and girls from Women’s Fund of Omaha, Girls Inc., and the Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands whose free tickets were underwritten by Film Streams donors.

Our series for film lovers of all ages continues this fall!

Sep 13 - 27, 2022 // How do filmmakers reveal a picture of themselves - in the reframing of films already completed, in the face of a ban from filmmaking, or within the tangles of memory and happenstance? The three films in the Autoportrait series — This Is Not a Film, Cameraperson, and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania — present filmmakers who reflect on themselves and their craft, finding that their telling of others' stories is also a telling…

A unique perspective within the coming-of-age genre is presented in Girl Friends, a series that focuses on girls, friends, girlfriends, and girl friends. Three films, all directed by queer women, center to some extent on a romantic storyline, though often the most interesting moments revolve around the interactions between friendship and queerness: crushes on friends, social ostracization, the murky distinction between romantic and platonic feelings, sexual discovery, identity and presentation, allyship, and many forms of intimacy.