A first-time filmmaker from Nebraska made her directorial debut last week with the movie “Going for Two.”
Katherine Welch Markel started working on the screenplay in 2014, and it took three years to raise funds for production. She grew up in Nebraska, moved to Los Angeles to work as an actress, stage director and playwright, and finally moved back to Omaha to work on her film.
“Of course it’s a dream come true,” Welch Markel said. “Anybody that ever writes a screenplay [knows] all you want to do is see it, you know, reach reality.”…