{"id":3815,"date":"2026-07-23T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:38:50","slug":"stay-in-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3815","title":{"rendered":"Stay In The Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2026 Official Selection: Drama &#8211; Short (under 20 mins), Thriller &#8211; Short<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Stay_In_Th_Car_Wide_Still_1.3.1.jpg\" alt=\"Stay In The Car\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Program:<\/strong> Shorts Block 15 \u00b7 Sun, Aug 23, 2026 \u00b7 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director(s):<\/strong> Calvin Ghaznavi<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Amanda Ross<\/li>\n<li><strong>Producer(s):<\/strong> Neela Gerayli, Devyn Wong<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Cast:<\/strong> Lara Hunter, Timothy V. Murphy, Ashley Alva<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime:<\/strong> 8m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> In the dead of night, fifteen-year-old Salem waits in her mother\u2019s run down El Camino. She\u2019s told again and again to \u201cstay in the car\u201d while her mom and her violent partner disappear into empty buildings and dark parking lots. Hours drag on and in the backseat, Salem twists and turns, her small movements filling the silence. The night continues and the car feels less like a place of safety and more like a cage. As the hours stretch on and sirens echo in the distance, Salem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway.com\/submissions\/36119902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch the trailer \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"@stayinthecarfilm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stayinthecar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit the official website \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: FILA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Drama &#8211; Short (under 20 mins), Thriller &#8211; Short Program: Shorts Block 15 \u00b7 Sun, Aug 23, 2026 \u00b7 6:00 PM Director(s): Calvin Ghaznavi Writer(s): Amanda Ross Producer(s): Neela Gerayli, Devyn Wong Key Cast: Lara Hunter, Timothy V. Murphy, Ashley Alva Language: English Runtime: 8m Country: United States Synopsis: In the dead &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3815\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stay In The Car&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3815","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\/3815","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=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}