{"id":596,"date":"2013-09-25T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/09\/25\/catch-new-short-films-around-dc-all-week\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:40:00","slug":"catch-new-short-films-around-dc-all-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/09\/25\/catch-new-short-films-around-dc-all-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch new short films around DC all week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/festival.dcshorts.com\/tickets\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-HuFTNILNeQk\/UkNKJLNkhgI\/AAAAAAAAAzI\/xwlEN5Cbswg\/s200\/xya7ay1eyjemfyb77chy.jpeg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>DC has become an epicenter of independent films, attracting filmmakers from around the country to take advantage of the city&#8217;s social activism and global culture.<\/p>\n<p>One of DC&#8217;s hallmark film events, <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.dcshorts.com\/tickets\/\">the DC Shorts Film Festival<\/a>, kicked off last Thursday and continues through this week. The DC Shorts Festival includes screenings of 153 films from around the globe, including a collection of 18 Russian shorts. If you don&#8217;t live in downtown DC, other theaters in Maryland and Virginia plan to show the same programs as well.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the DC Shorts Film Festival are <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.dcshorts.com\/tickets\/\">$12 online or $15 at the door<\/a>. This year&#8217;s festival also includes a $40 streaming package that lets you watch many of the films at home (pretty neat!). This is a fun opportunity to explore fresh voices in local and world cinema from the comfort of your city.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: <\/b>DC Shorts has kindly provided a code for $2 off tickets for students! Just enter the code SHARE2 at checkout for a discount.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC has become an epicenter of independent films, attracting filmmakers from around the country to take advantage of the city&#8217;s social activism and global culture. One of DC&#8217;s hallmark film events, the DC Shorts Film Festival, kicked off last Thursday and continues through this week. The DC Shorts Festival includes screenings of 153 films from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-screening","tag-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}