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Cole Webley, USA 2025
Filmmaker Cole Webley collaborates with screenwriter Robert Machoian to bring a riveting story of a father’s love and devotion toward his two young children in OMAHA.
The 2008 economic crisis in America affected many families who were forced to revert to unthinkable decisions to keep the family unit intact. OMAHA is a fictional narrative based on true-to-life stories of parents reverting to desperate measures in desperate times to give their children the best opportunities available for their survival.
Webley says, “At its heart, OMAHA is a story about fatherhood. Through a family road trip across the American West, the film explores the complexities of love, responsibility, and the search for meaning in the face of hardship.”
A loving father (John Magaro) and his two young children, Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and Charlie (Wyatt Solis) are forced to vacate their home after his wife passes, due to their surmounting bills with no income to recon their debt. This struggling father has less than $100 to his name. This patriarch is at a loss as to where he can turn for help; so, he takes the family all on a road trip across the country that doesn’t seem as happy as one would imagine.
OMAHA takes the audience on a slow-moving journey of the father’s plan for their survival. A path less traveled of familial love. Webley describes, “This universal truth is never more evident in a story where a parent faces the unthinkable reality for the ultimate good of a child.” Questions one will ask at the film’s outcome according to Webley, “If you fail as a provider, would you fail as a father? Wherein lies the true value of our love? And finally, if providing what is best for a child requires an unthinkable choice…could you or should make it?”
Webley adds, “OMAHA gave me a chance to explore the deepest level of fatherhood and confront a reality that many of my fellow humans experienced. Through their pain, love, and unimaginable reality the film puts a face to a moment in time that happened.”
