COVER STORY
story by Chris Aponick | photos by minorwhitestudios.com
Aaron Haug Shift Manager
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Amanda Fehlner Associate Manager
Maggie Wood, Office & Operations Manager
Film Streams
Hallie Sharkey Membership Associate & Volunteer Coordinator
and Ruth Sokolof Theater Mark a Milestone
MAHAN RACHEL JACOBSON’S vision for her dream movie theater now thrives as a brick-and-mortar reality in North Downtown. Five years in, Film Streams and the Ruth Sokolof Theater are going strong. In celebration of the fifth anniversary of Film Streams’ opening, the art house will be hosting an anniversary weekend, including special recognition of all its wonderful supporters, as well as a look back at important milestones achieved along the way. The look back in time has been penned “Nine to Five.” Jacobson, the founder of the nonprofit film theater organization, says some aspects of the theater’s success even exceed her original vision. It’s a project that has connected Saddle Creek Records, locally born filmmaker Alexander Payne, novelist and National Public
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Rachel Jacobson Casey Logan, CommuniFounder/Executive Director cations Coordinator
Radio personality Kurt Anderson, Omaha’s philanthrophic community, and several other community-based organizations and nonprofits to Jacobson’s two-screen theater at 1340 Mike Fahey St. “[There] are a lot of things that are better than I ever envisioned—the community support and the people who have helped make it happen,” she says. Jacobson is quick to cite the involvement of Payne, whose critically acclaimed films have often been set and/or shot in Nebraska. Jacobson says Payne eagerly joined the organization’s nascent board of directors once he had a chance
We got to create the perfect space for our programming. -Rachel Jacobson
the encounter | july/august 2012
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