{"id":4011,"date":"2026-10-19T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:47:17","slug":"the-person-you-were-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"The Person You Were Before"},"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=1bKvv_AVpr0Y3S5Uuz3RNeQPrQrXg5qH1&amp;sz=w515\" alt=\"The Person You Were Before\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ceremony date &amp; tickets<\/strong> \u2014 to be announced<\/p>\n<p><em>Fate is always on call.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Mark Jonathan Landau, Ali Reza Tafreshi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> Not Specified<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"@mark.j.landau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Person You Were Before is a semi-autobiographical medical drama with sci-fi elements that acts partially as an expos\u00e9 of the daily life of healthcare workers. The broken healthcare system molds the psyche of those who engage in it, both patient and practitioner, until the result is something unrecognizable to themselves. When confronted with an increasingly surreal atmosphere, their thirst for knowledge comes at the price of having to face their own mortality.<\/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 Fate is always on call. Writer(s): Mark Jonathan Landau, Ali Reza Tafreshi Country: Not Specified Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192 The Person You Were Before is a semi-autobiographical medical drama with sci-fi elements that acts partially as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=4011\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Person You Were Before&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sherman-oaks-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}