{"id":15348,"date":"2024-01-06T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/blog\/what-makes-austin-film-festival-special\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:11:05","slug":"what-makes-austin-film-festival-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/featured\/what-makes-austin-film-festival-special\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Austin Film Festival Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnJpoXZGVT4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 29th Annual Austin Film Festival took place Oct. 27- Nov. 3. Attendees talk about what makes AFF different from other film festivals and share their experiences regarding the screenwriting conference.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Shezan Samanani and Anita Shiva.<br \/>\nVideo by Shezan Samanani, Anita Shiva, Ryan Ranc and Mimi Calzada.<br \/>\nEdited by Shezan Samanani.<br \/>\nMusic by King Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>This video was produced under Video Editor Shezan Samanani.<\/p>\n<h3>More info on What Makes Austin Film Festival Special<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ss-local-rss\"><div class=\"rss_header\"><h2><a href=\"https:\/\/cn.bing.com\/news\/search\/?q=What+Makes+Austin+Film+Festival+Special&amp;qft=sortbydate%3D%221%22&amp;format=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rss_title\">What Makes Austin Film Festival Special - BingNews<\/a><br \/><span class=\"rss_description\"> Search results<\/span><\/h2><\/div><ul>\n            <li>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&amp;aid=&amp;tid=6648550c49004b83b129f56b5e86acfd&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Frichard-gere-wife-alejandra-silva-have-stylish-date-night-cannes-film-festival-premiere-oh-canada-8650577&amp;c=16782590162063361186&amp;mkt=en-us\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRichard Gere and Wife Alejandra Silva Have Stylish Date Night at Cannes Film Festival Premiere of Oh, Canada\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism ... 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Attendees talk about what makes AFF different from other film festivals and share their experiences regarding the screenwriting conference. Produced by Shezan Samanani and Anita Shiva. Video by Shezan Samanani, Anita Shiva, Ryan Ranc and Mimi Calzada. Edited by Shezan Samanani. Music by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VnJpoXZGVT4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}