{"id":2095,"date":"2022-10-18T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2022-10-18T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:59:01","slug":"essentially-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Essentially Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>2022 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Drama<\/h4>\n<p>Amy is a disenfranchised Chinese American girl working at her local grocery store during the height of the pandemic. As Amy confronts growing racism both in and outside of her home, Amy must come to terms with who she really is and what she really wants.<\/p>\n<p>Director(s): Ari Groobman<br \/>\nWriter(s): Ari Groobman<br \/>\nProducer(s): Ben O&#8217;Keefe, Mitchell Schwartz, Ryan Ramsey<br \/>\nKey Cast: Stacy Chu, Ping Liu, Brenda Valencia, Seyi Ayorinde, Hidekun Hah, Heather Turman, Jim Todd<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/soff-2022\/2022-official-selections-films\/\">Go to 2022 Official Selections &#8211; Films Page<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2885\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2885\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Essentially_Amy_Delivery_Stereo_ProResProxy_3200x1800.00_06_16_03.Imagen-fija013-Ari-Groobman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is this the new normal?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Theatrical Screenings:<\/strong> Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)<br \/>\nScreenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goelevent.com\/discoverfilm\/e\/Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to purchase tickets!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Screenings:<\/strong>\u00a0The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/soff2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Drama Amy is a disenfranchised Chinese American girl working at her local grocery store during the height of the pandemic. As Amy confronts growing racism both in and outside of her home, Amy must come to terms with who she really is and what she really wants. Director(s): Ari &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2095\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Essentially Amy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sherman-oaks-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}