{"id":3828,"date":"2026-07-31T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:00:32","slug":"724-lauren-george-bott-the-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"724. Lauren &amp; George Bott \u201cThe Nine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone is having a beautiful last day of July!<\/p>\n<p>Lauren &amp; George Bott joined me to talk about their fantastic film &#8220;The Nine,&#8221; which was a 2025 Sherman Oaks Film Festival Official Selection and took home the Filmmakers Awards for Outstanding Director \u2013 Short Film \u2013 Comedy \u2013 Lauren W. Bott ANDOutstanding Film \u2013 Short Film \u2013 Comedy<\/p>\n<p>You can watch &#8220;The Nine&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jME4FRALk30?feature=shared\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you can find more about it and these lovely humans on Instagram:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/geobott\/\">@geobott<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/picky_eater_productions\/\">@Picky_Eater_Productions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lizzybott\/\">@LizzyBott<\/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>I hope everyone is having a beautiful last day of July! Lauren &amp; George Bott joined me to talk about their fantastic film &#8220;The Nine,&#8221; which was a 2025 Sherman Oaks Film Festival Official Selection and took home the Filmmakers Awards for Outstanding Director \u2013 Short Film \u2013 Comedy \u2013 Lauren W. Bott ANDOutstanding Film &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3828\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;724. Lauren &amp; George Bott \u201cThe Nine\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-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","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=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}