{"id":3814,"date":"2026-07-22T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:00:28","slug":"720-rani-naamani-born-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"720. Rani Naamani \u201cBorn Ready\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Back!<\/p>\n<p>Born Ready, directed by Rani Namani, is an exploration of the miracle of birth shown through the lens of a Synthwave music video.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a SOFF 2025 Official Selection: Music Video &amp; Short Film \u2013 Animation that took Grand Jury Award \u2013 Best Music Video.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did and then dig in deeper by following\u00a0Rani&#8217;s Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rani.naamani\/\">@rani.naamani<\/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>Welcome Back! Born Ready, directed by Rani Namani, is an exploration of the miracle of birth shown through the lens of a Synthwave music video. It&#8217;s also a SOFF 2025 Official Selection: Music Video &amp; Short Film \u2013 Animation that took Grand Jury Award \u2013 Best Music Video. I hope you enjoy our chat as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3814\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;720. Rani Naamani \u201cBorn Ready\u201d&#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-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}