{"id":3453,"date":"2025-10-30T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:10:55","slug":"our-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Our Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: Feature Film &#8211; Horror<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Raya, a tormented woman caring for her bedridden husband, is haunted by terrifying nightmares. She wakes up each morning in the forest, falling deeper into freshly dug graves beneath her. As supernatural forces torment her and the line between dream and reality collapses, she unearths a horrifying secret buried within the woods\u2014and herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Paul Bickel<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Paul Bickel<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Paul Bickel, Tracie Thoms<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Tracie Thoms, Raya Miles, Paul Bickel, Eugene Byrd<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4481\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4481\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Our-Happy-Place-Raya-bloody-face-copy-paul-bickel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The truth won&#8217;t stay buried.<\/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; Horror Raya, a tormented woman caring for her bedridden husband, is haunted by terrifying nightmares. She wakes up each morning in the forest, falling deeper into freshly dug graves beneath her. As supernatural forces torment her and the line between dream and reality collapses, she unearths a horrifying secret &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3453\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Happy Place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","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\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}