{"id":3682,"date":"2026-05-20T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:00:36","slug":"693-4qs-with-vidhya-iyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"693. 4Qs with Vidhya Iyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.<\/p>\n<p>Vidhya Iyer wrote and directed the short film, &#8220;Giving Mom the Talk,&#8221; 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 &#8211; Short Film \u2013 Comedy.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed getting know know Vidhya as much as I did and you&#8217;re back for a little more with the 4 Questions!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know even more, please follow her at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heyiyer\/\">@heyiyer<\/a>\u00a0 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tingifilms\/\">@tingifilms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n<p>Discover Indie Film Links<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\">DIF Podcast Website<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">DIF Instagram<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/difwins.bsky.social\">DIF BlueSky<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sherman Oaks Film Festival<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film Invasion Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Vidhya Iyer wrote and directed the short film, &#8220;Giving Mom the Talk,&#8221; which was a SOFF 2025 Official Selection and earned the Grand Jury Award \u2013 Best Short Film \u2013 Comedy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3682\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;693. 4Qs with Vidhya Iyer&#8221;<\/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-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}