{"id":2861,"date":"2024-10-11T16:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2024-10-11T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:17:23","slug":"will-you-please-hit-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"Will You Please Hit Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Comedy<\/p>\n<p>At a quiet country bookstore, yoga teacher Lisa accidentally runs into Tanya, the woman who destroyed her marriage and nearly got her killed, only to find that there is now one more thing Tanya would like from her: physical punishment. Told through a series of escalating flashbacks, Will You Please Hit Me?&#8217;s distinct dark comedic tone and characters were born of a devising process involving stories from the actors lives, abstract movement, and improvisation.<\/p>\n<p>Director(s): Jack Frederick<br \/>\nWriter(s): Jack Frederick, Melissa Aquiles, Lia Bonfilio<br \/>\nProducer(s):Melissa Aquiles, Jack Frederick<br \/>\nKey Cast: Melissa Aquiles, Lia Bonfilio, Jacob A. Ware, Matthew Dudley, Joshua Hurley, Kim Savarino, Kathiana Casimir, Dash King, Rory Cullen, Emily Pacilio, Gavin Price, Pat Galante, Florence Price, Charles Zivancev<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Premiere<br \/>\nCountry: USA<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3845\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3845\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WillYouPleaseHitMeScreenGrab-Melissa-Aquiles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I mean come on &#8211; after everything?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Comedy At a quiet country bookstore, yoga teacher Lisa accidentally runs into Tanya, the woman who destroyed her marriage and nearly got her killed, only to find that there is now one more thing Tanya would like from her: physical punishment. Told through a series of escalating flashbacks, Will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=2861\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will You Please Hit Me?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","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\/2861","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=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}