{"id":29694,"date":"2019-07-24T23:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29694"},"modified":"2019-07-24T23:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:38:48","slug":"briefly-film-festival-announcement-for-2019-makes-me-nostalgic-for-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29694","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Film festival announcement for 2019 makes me nostalgic for 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/WTG-Sidewalk-email.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29695\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/WTG-Sidewalk-email.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/WTG-Sidewalk-email.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/WTG-Sidewalk-email-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham\u2019s Sidewalk Film Festival announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2019\/07\/sidewalk-film-festival-2019-organizers-announce-nearly-full-lineup-schedule.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lineup for its 21st year<\/a> today, and seeing that story reminded me powerfully of 14 years ago when my short film \u2014 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/102786376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We\u2019re the Government \u2014 and You\u2019re Not<\/a>\u201d \u2014 was selected for the festival. Sidewalk was the first festival to which I submitted and it was a really big deal to me to have the film accepted here, partly because I knew it would get a big audience and partly because all the local people who worked on it could see it with an audience. The film ended up making it into 20 festivals over the following 18 months or so and it even won a few awards. But nothing was more exciting than that first acceptance and then being able to see it with a huge audience for its first screening. (Even better, they roared with laughter at the right parts.) I really need to make another film. My first film seems amateurish to me now \u2014 and I\u2019m confident enough (or arrogant enough) to think I could do something great this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham\u2019s Sidewalk Film Festival announced the lineup for its 21st year today, and seeing that story reminded me powerfully of 14 years ago when my short film \u2014 \u201cWe\u2019re the Government \u2014 and You\u2019re Not\u201d \u2014 was selected for the festival. Sidewalk was the first festival to which I submitted and it was a really <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29694\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7IW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29696,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694\/revisions\/29696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}