{"id":3141,"date":"2025-05-14T22:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2025-05-14T22:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:14:43","slug":"becoming-an-oyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3141","title":{"rendered":"Becoming an Oyster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Animation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Becoming an Oyster is a haunting animated journey through a boy\u2019s eyes, where grief, addiction, and a crumbling planet intertwine in a surreal search for healing and meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Elizabeth Schneider, Michael Covello<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: United States<br \/>\nLos Angeles Premiere<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3029\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BecomingAnOyster_2-MCovello-ESchneider-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the world breaks around you, what do you hold onto?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/2025festival\/2025-official-selections-films\/\">Return to 2025 Official Selections \u2013 Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: FILA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Animation Becoming an Oyster is a haunting animated journey through a boy\u2019s eyes, where grief, addiction, and a crumbling planet intertwine in a surreal search for healing and meaning. Director(s): Elizabeth Schneider, Michael Covello Country: United States Los Angeles Premiere When the world breaks around you, what do you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3141\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Becoming an Oyster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-invasion-l-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","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=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}