{"id":3871,"date":"2017-03-24T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensemisch.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2017-03-24T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:17:02","slug":"my-first-short-film-funeral-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"My First Short Film &#8211; &#8220;Funeral Favors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in late 2014 I was working sound at a funeral and had an idea for a short film &#8211; what if someone took up the offer of a &#8220;helping hand&#8221; and took it way too far? After writing a rough draft I found a cast and together we polished it up, shooting it in early 2015. The rest of that year was rough on me for some reason I can&#8217;t really put into words and I left the project shelved, aside from pulling it out to edit it for a few minutes once every few months.<\/p>\n<p>Finally in 2016 things started clearing up and my headspace became a lot more clear and I was able to finish the film. At the time the Omaha Film Festival was accepting entries for it&#8217;s 2017 festival so I submitted it, thinking it probably wouldn&#8217;t get in. To my surprise they ended up accepting it for the festival, which meant it wouldn&#8217;t be publicly available until after the festival, which just wrapped up two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>And now, nearly 2 years after we shot the film, you can watch it for the first time. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/\/dDvxLMewdRo' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in late 2014 I was working sound at a funeral and had an idea for a short film &#8211; what if someone took up the offer of a &#8220;helping hand&#8221; and took it way too far? After writing a rough draft I found a cast and together we polished it up, shooting it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,125],"tags":[264,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensemisch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}