Nine to Five: Our Feature Presentation(s)
It’s a stroke of serendipity that our fifth anniversary comes within a week of Feature IV, this Sunday’s celebration supporting the Ruth Sokolof Theater. As we get ready to welcome Jane Fonda to Omaha this weekend(!!), we also take a look back at our three previous Feature events. Before we do, a very, very special thanks to our amazing board member Alexander Payne, who has personally invited all of our Feature special guests to Omaha and contributed so much to making each event a success, and to our wonderful Honorary Chair for Feature IV, Susie Buffett.
FEATURE 2008 | Sunday, July 13, 2008
Special Guest Laura Dern in conversation with Alexander Payne.
Event Chairs: Betiana & Todd Simon.
“I spent my summer vacation going back and forth between two sets watching my parents (Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd) work with Scorsese and Hitchcock. What I learned that summer was that you could do each take with variety, be extreme, be bold.” –Laura Dern
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FEATURE 2009 | Sunday, September 13, 2009
Special Guest Debra Winger in conversation with Alexander Payne.
Event Chairs: Annette & Paul Smith.
“I [chose roles] that I couldn’t bear someone else doing… If the business wasn’t in the state it’s in, I’d do more. I have unbelievable stories inside me.” –Debra Winger
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FEATURE III | Sunday, February 20, 2011
Special Guest Steven Soderbergh in conversation with Kurt Andersen; Introduction by Alexander Payne. Event Chairs: The Weitz Family.
“The making of any art is just problem-solving. As you work at it, your filtering system gets better. You’re able to eliminate the versions that aren’t any good faster. But at a certain point, the solves sort of become the same. And when I started feeling like, I’ve done this shot before, I’ve done a scene that’s about this before, when that started to happen, that’s when I started thinking seriously about a shift, because I don’t like that feeling, I don’t like that feeling of repeating something I’ve done, even if it was a good thing.” –Steven Soderbergh
