{"id":3681,"date":"2026-05-18T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:00:14","slug":"692-vidhya-iyer-giving-mom-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"692. Vidhya Iyer \u201cGiving Mom the Talk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back, Film Friends!<\/p>\n

Vidhya Iyer wrote and directed the short film, “Giving Mom the Talk,” which was a SOFF 2025 Official Selection and earned the Grand Jury Award \u2013 Best Short Film \u2013 Comedy AND the Filmmakers Award \u2013 Outstanding Director – Short Film \u2013 Comedy.<\/p>\n

Vidya wasn’t able to attend the festival because she was traveling in India so I was very excited to get to know her a little bit with this great chat we had.<\/p>\n

If you want to know more, please follow her at<\/p>\n

@heyiyer<\/a>\u00a0 or @tingifilms<\/a><\/p>\n

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n

Discover Indie Film Links
\nDIF Podcast Website<\/a> – DIF Instagram<\/a> –\u00a0DIF BlueSky<\/a>
\nDiscover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website<\/a>
\nSherman Oaks Film Festival<\/a>
\nFilm Invasion Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome back, Film Friends! Vidhya Iyer wrote and directed the short film, “Giving Mom the Talk,” which was a SOFF 2025 Official Selection and earned the Grand Jury Award \u2013 Best Short Film \u2013 Comedy AND the Filmmakers Award \u2013 Outstanding Director – Short Film \u2013 Comedy. Vidya wasn’t able to attend the festival because … <\/p>\n

Read More “692. Vidhya Iyer \u201cGiving Mom the Talk\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}