{"id":646,"date":"2018-11-16T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:37:04","slug":"2018-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"2018 Award Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The juries deliberated and debated&#8230; and finally decided.\u00a0 Sincerely, all 36 films that screened at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival this year were great.\u00a0 Being an Official Selection at SOFF truly means something.\u00a0 We do not select films based on recognizable actors, social media followers, and or large local fanbases.\u00a0 We select the films based solely on quality and we could not be more proud of the quality of this year&#8217;s Official Selections.<\/p>\n<p>But film festival protocol demands that we give out awards.\u00a0 This year we expanded the awards by adding the Filmmakers Awards to the Grand Jury Prizes and Audience Award Winners.\u00a0 The Filmmakers Awards are given in the Narrative Short category and are selected by the Filmmakers Board, a panel of fifteen filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections in previous festivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/soff-2018\/2018-awards\/\">Click here to see the full list of SOFF 2018 award winners!<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Grand Jury Prize Winners<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1164\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GJP_winners-1024x1004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"515\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Audience Award Winners<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1162\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Audience_winners-1024x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"257\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Filmmakers Award Winners<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1163\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Filmmakers_winners-1024x1007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"516\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The juries deliberated and debated&#8230; and finally decided.\u00a0 Sincerely, all 36 films that screened at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival this year were great.\u00a0 Being an Official Selection at SOFF truly means something.\u00a0 We do not select films based on recognizable actors, social media followers, and or large local fanbases.\u00a0 We select the films based &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=646\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2018 Award Winners Announced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","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\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}