ABOUT THE FILM
Set in Omaha, Nebraska — where the legacies of Malcolm X, racial segregation, and political division still shape everyday life — My Omaha follows filmmaker Nick Beaulieu as he documents his city’s racial justice movement while attempting to reconnect with his terminally ill father Randy, a staunch Trump supporter. As activist Leo Louis II draws Nick deeper into North Omaha’s struggle and resilience, the film becomes an intimate portrait of family, race, and the uneasy search for truth inside modern America.
My Omaha begins in 2016 as the emergence of Donald Trump intensifies political and racial divisions across the United States. Returning home after journalism school, filmmaker Nick Beaulieu turns his camera toward Omaha, Nebraska — a city marked by segregation, economic inequality, and the legacy of being the birthplace of Malcolm X.
Seeking to understand the widening divide between the white suburbs where he grew up and the historically Black neighborhoods of North Omaha, Nick meets community activist Leo Louis II, a fiercely independent organizer whose work places him at the center of Omaha’s growing racial justice movement. Through Leo, Nick encounters a side of his hometown he had never fully seen: a community fighting to protect itself, preserve its history, and survive systems that have long neglected it.
At the same time, Nick begins filming a series of increasingly difficult conversations with his father Randy, a conservative Christian and devoted Trump supporter, whose sudden diagnosis of stage-4 cancer forces both men to confront the emotional and political distance between them before time runs out.
As Omaha faces protests, political unrest, and the aftermath of a polarizing death connected to the movement, Nick finds himself caught between family tensions, a personal awakening, and the realities Leo has spent his life navigating. What begins as a documentary about political division gradually becomes something more intimate and unsettling: a reckoning with identity, legacy, community, and the unresolved contradictions at the heart of America.