{"id":3197,"date":"2025-05-21T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2025-05-21T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:42:22","slug":"once-more-like-rain-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3197","title":{"rendered":"Once More, Like Rain Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Comedy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Zoe is an autistic actress battling stereotypes on the audition day from hell in her quest to make a future that has her in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Sue Ann Pien<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Bella Zoe Martinez<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Suzann Ellis Spurgeon, Darren Dean, Bella Zoe Martinez, Melissa Jean Martinez-Areffi, Andrew J Areffi<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Bella Zoe Martinez, Matt Jones, Joe Mantegna, Sue Ann Pien, Sosie Bacon, Kristen Hager, Vella Lovell, Tracy Reiner, Tal Anderson, Alex Plank, James Paxton, Scott Krinsky, James Ponsoldt, Jenee LaMarque, Glory Simon, Andrew Carillo, Felix Pire, Naia Schroder, Tyler Sopland, Matt Jones, Barry Papick<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3127\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3127\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/once-more-like-rain-man-still-22-Melissa-Martinez-Areffi-300x126.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018It\u00b4s up to you to make a future that has you in it.\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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; Comedy Zoe is an autistic actress battling stereotypes on the audition day from hell in her quest to make a future that has her in it. Director(s): Sue Ann Pien Writer(s): Bella Zoe Martinez Producer(s): Suzann Ellis Spurgeon, Darren Dean, Bella Zoe Martinez, Melissa Jean Martinez-Areffi, Andrew J Areffi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3197\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once More, Like Rain Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","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\/3197","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=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}