{"id":3599,"date":"2026-01-18T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:45:53","slug":"yellowstone-88-song-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone 88 \u2013 Song of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: \u00a0<span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Animation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1988 dry lightning sparked a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park, igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million perimeter acres of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Song of Fire, a narrative poem, guides the animation of YELLOWSTONE 88 telling the story of this conflagration that raged unabated for months until a snow of such intense severity extinguished the flames. That winter surviving Fauna, exhausted from fire and weakened by hunger, die in greater numbers than those claimed by the fire. The cosmos turns from one season to another and another and life in the park begins anew.<\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): Betsy De Fries<br \/>\nProducer(s): Betsy De Fries<br \/>\nKey Cast: Peter Coyote<\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><br \/>\nSouth American Premiere<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3720\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Yellowstone-88-Song-of-Fire-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/2026-fi-lima\/2026-official-selections-fi-lima\/\">Return to 2026 Official Selections \u2013 Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: FILA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: \u00a0Short Film &#8211; Animation In the summer of 1988 dry lightning sparked a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park, igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million perimeter acres of the park. Song of Fire, a narrative poem, guides the animation of YELLOWSTONE 88 telling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3599\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yellowstone 88 \u2013 Song of Fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-invasion-l-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","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=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}