{"id":3971,"date":"2026-10-15T23:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:42:15","slug":"the-rosemead-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"The Rosemead Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2026 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; SciFi<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/thumbnail?id=1480fLRpRQNIfPzCZ_gIRKpftDLdH010w&amp;sz=w515\" alt=\"The Rosemead Incident\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>When a middle-aged UberEats driver convinces a documentary crew to film his reunion with his long lost extraterrestrial family, a decades old conspiracy theory is put to the test.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screening date &amp; tickets<\/strong> \u2014 to be announced<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director(s):<\/strong> Cesar Cervantes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Haohan Ding, Cesar Cervantes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Producer(s):<\/strong> Zoe Tamara<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Cast:<\/strong> Ron Song, Luke Barnett<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor(s):<\/strong> Abbi Jutkowitz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinematographer(s):<\/strong> Henry Yin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production Designer(s):<\/strong> Rixi Xinrui Liu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound Designer(s):<\/strong> Deanna Fielding<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composer(s):<\/strong> Joe Chris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime:<\/strong> 16m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Kevin Chen has spent his life convinced he&#8217;s an alien stranded on Earth. When he receives an email from his supposed \u201cfamily\u201d promising to pick him up in a flying Honda Odyssey, Kevin invites a documentary crew to film the reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite everyone\u2019s suspicion that he&#8217;s being scammed, Kevin leads the crew into the Angeles National Forest with $3,000 already sent for &quot;space gas.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rosemead_incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; SciFi When a middle-aged UberEats driver convinces a documentary crew to film his reunion with his long lost extraterrestrial family, a decades old conspiracy theory is put to the test. Screening date &amp; tickets \u2014 to be announced Director(s): Cesar Cervantes Writer(s): Haohan Ding, Cesar Cervantes Producer(s): Zoe Tamara &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3971\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rosemead Incident&#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-3971","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\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}