{"id":3974,"date":"2026-10-15T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:42:13","slug":"the-people-of-the-world-v-simon-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"The People of the World v. Simon Peterson"},"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=1CcTbRBd18cbJESY5d6SmT9XuRtt1LWNa&amp;sz=w515\" alt=\"The People of the World v. Simon Peterson\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In judgement, we are whole<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screening date &amp; tickets<\/strong> \u2014 to be announced<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director(s):<\/strong> Liam J Collins<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Rosalie Lyons<\/li>\n<li><strong>Producer(s):<\/strong> Matthew Ciancarelli<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Cast:<\/strong> Bill Welden, Crystal Porter Bazemore, Jeff Gendelman, Eric Toms, Bella Edelmann, Theodore Mark Martinez<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor(s):<\/strong> Gianni Gibbs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinematographer(s):<\/strong> Jackson Burns<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production Designer(s):<\/strong> Alanis Rosa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound Designer(s):<\/strong> Tavin McAllister<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composer(s):<\/strong> Connor Low<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime:<\/strong> 15m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Los Angeles Premiere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> In a world where each dying human must sit on a trial to determine which digital afterlife they will reside in, aging politician Simon Peterson must make a case for his consciousness to be uploaded to the artificial heaven instead of hell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/peoplevsimonthesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34891777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit the official website \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; SciFi In judgement, we are whole Screening date &amp; tickets \u2014 to be announced Director(s): Liam J Collins Writer(s): Rosalie Lyons Producer(s): Matthew Ciancarelli Key Cast: Bill Welden, Crystal Porter Bazemore, Jeff Gendelman, Eric Toms, Bella Edelmann, Theodore Mark Martinez Editor(s): Gianni Gibbs Cinematographer(s): Jackson Burns Production Designer(s): Alanis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3974\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The People of the World v. Simon Peterson&#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-3974","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\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}