{"id":3735,"date":"2026-06-22T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:57:20","slug":"firstborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"FIRSTBORN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2026 Official Selection: Animation &#8211; Short<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FIRSTBORN_FIRSTBORN_Still02_300dpi-1.jpg\" alt=\"FIRSTBORN\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime:<\/strong> 9m<\/p>\n<p><em>A surreal mythology following the journey of a firstborn child.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director(s):<\/strong> Olivia G Porrill<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Olivia G Porrill<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor(s):<\/strong> Olivia G Porrill<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinematographer(s):<\/strong> Olivia G Porrill<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production Designer(s):<\/strong> Olivia G Porrill<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound Designer(s):<\/strong> Olivia G Porrill<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composer(s):<\/strong> James Gray Gasket Gordon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> No Dialogue<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Los Angeles Premiere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1087538345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch the trailer \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"@livssketch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olivia.porrill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit the official website \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A firstborn child is delivered into a strange world. After passing the first threshold of birth, she must encounter a new one: what lies beyond the world that she was born into, and what the consequences are if she does not pass through. A mythology on the right of passage of a child who must become their own being, and the unique circumstance of being the first child to endure it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: FILA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Animation &#8211; Short Runtime: 9m A surreal mythology following the journey of a firstborn child. Director(s): Olivia G Porrill Writer(s): Olivia G Porrill Editor(s): Olivia G Porrill Cinematographer(s): Olivia G Porrill Production Designer(s): Olivia G Porrill Sound Designer(s): Olivia G Porrill Composer(s): James Gray Gasket Gordon Language: No Dialogue Country: United States &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3735\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FIRSTBORN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","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\/3735","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=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}