{"id":2182,"date":"2022-11-11T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2022-11-11T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:00:36","slug":"316-byrne-owens-my-roommate-the-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"316. Byrne Owens \u201cMy Roommate the Jedi\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2357\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Byrne-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Byrne Owens brought his film &#8220;My Roommate the Jedi&#8221; to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and, oh my, became the first filmmaker to take home FIVE awards in a single festival. \u00a0I will not list them all, who has time, but Byrne and his longtime collaborator Lu Louis made a masterpiece that you can watch right now by going to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myroommatethe.com\">myroommatethe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne also happens to be an incredible nice and open person and this conversation was a wonderful one to have. \u00a0I hope you enjoy listening to it!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Byrne and his work:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/myroommatethe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@myroommatethe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/byrneowens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@byrneowens<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/luontheloo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@luontheloo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discover Indie Film Links<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\">DIF Website<\/a>\u00a0<\/b> &#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/difwins\/\">DIF Instagram<\/a>\u00a0<\/b> &#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/difwins\">DIF Facebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/b> &#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DIFwins\">DIF Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byrne Owens brought his film &#8220;My Roommate the Jedi&#8221; to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and, oh my, became the first filmmaker to take home FIVE awards in a single festival. \u00a0I will not list them all, who has time, but Byrne and his longtime collaborator Lu Louis made a masterpiece that you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2182\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;316. Byrne Owens \u201cMy Roommate the Jedi\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","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=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}