{"id":3461,"date":"2025-10-30T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:42:13","slug":"benjamin-what-are-you-doing-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin, What Are You Doing Here?"},"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\">When bumbling Benjamin finds out he didn&#8217;t get invited to his high school best friend&#8217;s wedding he decides to crash it, and crashes right into his shortcomings as a friend when he gets there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Christan Mary Leonard<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Ezra Parter, Keeley Bell<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Ezra Parter, Joy Regullano, Yaki Margulies, Natalie Berg<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><br \/>\nLos Angeles Premiere<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4499\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4499\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/benjamin-what-are-you-doing-here-still-Ezra-Parter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh no, it&#8217;s a small ass wedding.<\/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: Short Film &#8211; Comedy When bumbling Benjamin finds out he didn&#8217;t get invited to his high school best friend&#8217;s wedding he decides to crash it, and crashes right into his shortcomings as a friend when he gets there. Director(s): Christan Mary Leonard Writer(s): Ezra Parter, Keeley Bell Key Cast: Ezra Parter, Joy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3461\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Benjamin, What Are You Doing Here?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","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\/3461","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=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}