{"id":1784,"date":"2021-11-16T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/?page_id=1784"},"modified":"2021-11-16T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:32:18","slug":"a-story-about-a-young-writer-whose-pressures-of-life-leads-him-to-do-the-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/a-story-about-a-young-writer-whose-pressures-of-life-leads-him-to-do-the-unthinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectations by Atu Barnabas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Expectations (ASIFF 2021 WINNER)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NisWksRHtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Atu Barnabas |  Nigeria | 9:51 | Short Film <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A story about a young writer whose pressures of life leads him to do the unthinkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Biography &#8211;\u00a0Atu Barnabas<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/ff-storage-p01\/press_kits\/headshots\/001\/761\/874\/original\/a6a7b26a8a-headshot.jpg?1614992009\"><\/a><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atu Barnabas is a filmmaker based in Nigeria. Barnabas works part-time as a production assistant on comedy skits, short videos, and promotional videos for RRN Media Productions and Cuts by 7pixel in Lagos Nigeria.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barnabas sometimes gets ideas for the characters in his films from real-life situations. Barnabas enjoyed drama rehearsals in church and was the coordinator for the drama department in his high school and he has been hooked on movie productions ever since. His dream is to direct an Action-thriller staring Zendaya one day and is currently building his body of work as a director.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atu Barnabas | Nigeria | 9:51 | Short Film A story about a young writer whose pressures of life leads him to do the unthinkable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1784","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\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}