{"id":2184,"date":"2022-11-25T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:00:32","slug":"322-brandon-c-lay-sarah-cugini-bitter-taste-of-ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"322. Brandon C. Lay &amp; Sarah Cugini \u201cBitter Taste of Ginger\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2381\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0273-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Brandon C. Lay wrote and directed the feature film &#8220;Bitter Taste of Ginger,&#8221; which lead actor Sarah Cugini absolutely threw onto her shoulders and brought to life. \u00a0These two also co-produced the film with collaborators\u00a0Marcy Repp and Joshua Faturos. &#8220;Bitter Taste of Ginger&#8221; came to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home two Grand Jury Prize Awards, Best Feature Film \u2013 Arthouse\/Experimental and Best Actress in a Lead Role \u00a0for Sarah! \u00a0 These two frequent collaborators represent the best in indie film; innovative, rule-breaking, and original.<\/p>\n<p>You can add to this introduction that their short film &#8220;Cueball&#8221; played at Film Invasion Los Angeles in June of 2022 along with &#8220;Bitter Taste of Ginger,&#8221; making that the rare film<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Ashley at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/misterashley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@misterashley<\/a> on Instagram<\/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>Brandon C. Lay wrote and directed the feature film &#8220;Bitter Taste of Ginger,&#8221; which lead actor Sarah Cugini absolutely threw onto her shoulders and brought to life. \u00a0These two also co-produced the film with collaborators\u00a0Marcy Repp and Joshua Faturos. &#8220;Bitter Taste of Ginger&#8221; came to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2184\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;322. Brandon C. Lay &amp; Sarah Cugini \u201cBitter Taste of Ginger\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","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\/2184","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=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}