{"id":235,"date":"2008-04-03T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-02-18T02:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T08:54:55","slug":"afi-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"AFI Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to a movie at <a href=\"http:\/\/dallasfilm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFI Dallas<\/a>, an international film festival that started last year. It&#8217;s about 10 days long and gives us the chance to see about 200 different movies of all sorts &#8211; foreign, documentary, family-friendly, narratives, fantasy, horror, shorts. Most are done with a low budget by people who love film and poured their hearts into making the best film they could make. The screenings are mostly at Dallas-area theaters that focus on independent film. Generally some of the people who made the film attend the screening and talk about it afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a Belgian\/Dutch film called Blind, which is a tragic love story about a blind and violent young man and a woman who is hired to read to him and calm him angry soul. The filmmakers did a fantastic job all around to produce a very moving and memorable film. The lead actor, a 20-something marketing student, flew over to attend the festival and answered lots of questions from us afterward. I hope to attend another AFI Dallas film, but I don&#8217;t know whether I&#8217;ll have time. It&#8217;s best to buy your tickets in advance through the website. If you like unusual films that aren&#8217;t your typical $100 million Hollywood blockbuster, I strongly recommend that you attend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to a movie at AFI Dallas, an international film festival that started last year. It&#8217;s about 10 days long and gives us the chance to see about 200 different movies of all sorts &#8211; foreign, documentary, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}