{"id":3429,"date":"2025-10-27T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:24:12","slug":"little-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3429","title":{"rendered":"Little Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Drama<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">With her fifth birthday fast approaching, a non-verbal autistic girl and her parents struggle to navigate the unaccepting world of a neurodivergent child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Kirsty O&#8217;Donnell<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Kirsty O&#8217;Donnell<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Kirsty O&#8217;Donnell, Rianne Pyle<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Raena Burks-Hunter, Dylan Page, Soulo Smith<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><br \/>\nLos Angeles Premiere<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4437\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LITTLE_BIRD_KIRSTY_ODONNELL_009-Kirsty-ODonnell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/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; Drama With her fifth birthday fast approaching, a non-verbal autistic girl and her parents struggle to navigate the unaccepting world of a neurodivergent child. Director(s): Kirsty O&#8217;Donnell Writer(s): Kirsty O&#8217;Donnell Producer(s): Kirsty O&#8217;Donnell, Rianne Pyle Key Cast: Raena Burks-Hunter, Dylan Page, Soulo Smith Country: United States Los Angeles Premiere &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3429\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little Bird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","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\/3429","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=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}