{"id":1581,"date":"2021-11-15T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/?page_id=1581"},"modified":"2021-11-15T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:04:11","slug":"official-selection-a-snails-pace-by-ian-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/official-selection-a-snails-pace-by-ian-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"A snail&#8217;s pace by Ian McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ian McDonald | United Kingdom | 9:58 | Short Film <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenting &#8216;a snail&#8217;s pace&#8217;, my first wildlife doc! But no commentary. No music. No explanations. Nothing to explain. Just observe. An observational wildlife doc! Presenting &#8216;a snail&#8217;s pace&#8217;, my first film shot and edited on a smartphone. Filmed handheld. No tripod or gimbal. No additional lens. No external microphone. Edited on iphone&#8217;s imovie app. Simple shots. Straight cuts. Capturing a moment, a movement, a journey. From Trivandrum in Kerala, South India during lockdown (May 2021). When my world shrunk to a house and garden. When time detached itself from the days. When the unnoticed became noticeable. When life calmed down. Like its main protagonist, &#8216;a snail&#8217;s pace&#8217; moves at a snail&#8217;s pace. Presenting a challenge to the audience to keep pace with the intrepid snail. To slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Biography &#8211;\u00a0Ian McDonald<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/ff-storage-p01\/press_kits\/headshots\/001\/831\/981\/original\/6eba3622a1-headshot.jpg?1622305616\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in the UK. His previous documentaries include the Grierson nominated Algorithms (2012 \/ 96mins) about young blind chess players from India. He is also the founding Director of Film@CultureLab, a centre for documentary filmmaking at Newcastle University, where Ian is a Reader in Film Practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian McDonald | United Kingdom | 9:58 | Short Film Presenting &#8216;a snail&#8217;s pace&#8217;, my first wildlife doc! But no commentary. No music. No explanations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1581","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}