{"id":3416,"date":"2025-10-24T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:08:10","slug":"merry-heistmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"Merry Heistmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Feature Film &#8211; Comedy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">A small-time crook recruits his estranged daughter into a fake caroling group to steal a diamond, but the holiday heist forces him to choose between family and fortune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Robb Padgett<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Robb Padgett<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Robb Padgett, Todd Norwood, Tanya Ihnen<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Robb Padgett, Natalie Scott, Amy Segal, Kian Fan, Tanya Ihnen, Kevin Spirtas<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4407\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4407\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Merry-Heistmas-SOFF-Still-SMALLER-Robb-Padgett.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tis the season to be stealing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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: Feature Film &#8211; Comedy A small-time crook recruits his estranged daughter into a fake caroling group to steal a diamond, but the holiday heist forces him to choose between family and fortune. Director(s): Robb Padgett Writer(s): Robb Padgett Producer(s): Robb Padgett, Todd Norwood, Tanya Ihnen Key Cast: Robb Padgett, Natalie Scott, Amy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3416\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Heistmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","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\/3416","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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}