{"id":3121,"date":"2025-05-09T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:00:31","slug":"531-christopher-saint-sokasana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"531. Christopher Saint \u201c\u015aokasana\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, DIF Listeners!<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Saint wrote, directed and produced the film \u201c\u015aokasana,\u201d a beautiful film that had its world premiere as an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and it took home a Programmer\u2019s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. I don\u2019t want to spoil what Chris reveals during this podcast; suffice to say that he completely surprised me with his professional and artistic background.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasure to learn the origins of \u201c\u015aokasana.\u201d If you listen to enough of these podcasts you will come to know that for me there are no topics more important to human storytelling than grief, loss and pain.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Chris on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bychristophersaint\">@bychristophersaint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n<p>Discover Indie Film Podcast Links<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\">DIF Podcast Website<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">DIF Instagram<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/difwins.bsky.social\">DIF BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Links<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DIF Foundation<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sherman Oaks Film Festival<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film Invasion Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, DIF Listeners! Christopher Saint wrote, directed and produced the film \u201c\u015aokasana,\u201d a beautiful film that had its world premiere as an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and it took home a Programmer\u2019s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. I don\u2019t want to spoil what Chris reveals during this podcast; suffice to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3121\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;531. Christopher Saint \u201c\u015aokasana\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}