{"id":3953,"date":"2026-10-15T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:38:07","slug":"talitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"TALITHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2026 Official Selection: Screenplay \u2013 Screenplay &#8211; Feature Film<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/thumbnail?id=1P2Qr7EM0-d5QzPDozbDJYpYm-8hot-6j&amp;sz=w515\" alt=\"TALITHA\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ceremony date &amp; tickets<\/strong> \u2014 to be announced<\/p>\n<p><em>After a life-transforming journey migrating West, a spoiled Southern belle elopes with a Union soldier who opens her eyes to the evils of slavery. Inspired by a true story.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Stephanie Hutchinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> Not Specified<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talithamovie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit the official website \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naive but feisty Southern belle Talitha comes of age during a covered wagon move West, encountering hunger, Indians, and a steamboat fire and sinking. She is unaware that her wealthy father has lost his fortune in a stock market crash and has borrowed money from a rich old merchant &#8211; who plans to marry her. Talitha falls in love with a pro Union Southerner who confronts her about the family&#8217;s African American slave. Inspired by a true &quot;Romeo &amp; Juliet&quot; Civil War love story.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Screenplay \u2013 Screenplay &#8211; Feature Film Ceremony date &amp; tickets \u2014 to be announced After a life-transforming journey migrating West, a spoiled Southern belle elopes with a Union soldier who opens her eyes to the evils of slavery. Inspired by a true story. Writer(s): Stephanie Hutchinson Language: English Country: Not Specified Visit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3953\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TALITHA&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherman-oaks-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}