{"id":3397,"date":"2025-10-22T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:10:24","slug":"giving-mom-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3397","title":{"rendered":"Giving Mom the Talk"},"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\">In this literal COMING-of-age film, an Indian woman gives her mom &#8220;the talk&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Vidhya Iyer<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Vidhya Iyer<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Aishwarya Sonar, Jozef Fahey<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier, Anita Kalathara, Garrick Bernard, Karthik Srinivasan<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4371\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Giving-Mom-TT-Meena-Varshini-bathroom-still-Vidhya-Iyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/soff-2025\/2025-official-selections-films\/\">Return to 2025 Official Selections \u2013 Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Comedy In this literal COMING-of-age film, an Indian woman gives her mom &#8220;the talk&#8221; Director(s): Vidhya Iyer Writer(s): Vidhya Iyer Producer(s): Aishwarya Sonar, Jozef Fahey Key Cast: Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier, Anita Kalathara, Garrick Bernard, Karthik Srinivasan Country: United States Return to 2025 Official Selections \u2013 Films Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","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\/3397","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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}